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prejudice and stereotyping  

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  • Prejudice and stereotyping, which represent two different facets of social bias, have profound impact for social justice and hierarchy. Prejudice is an individual-level attitude (whether subjectively positive or negative) toward groups and their members that creates or maintains hierarchical status relations between groups. [Source: Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences; Prejudice and Stereotyping]

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