Topic > Cause of Prejudice by Vincent Parrillo Analysis

"The psychological approach to prejudice is to examine individual behavior." (p. 505) the author reveals the reasoning he tries to support through the article using the psychology of prejudices to investigate individual behavior and then explains how to reach this conclusion. “We can understand more about prejudices among individuals by focusing on four areas of study…” (p. 505) the author organizes the article in this way to first reveal the point the author wants to make to the reader and then illustrate step by step step by step how he will persuade the reader to believe the author. Throughout the article the author separates his argument into four sections: the levels of prejudice, self-justification, personality, and frustration. Each category helps the author educate the reader on how the psychology of prejudice works. The author then continues in his article by describing and defining each area of ​​study: "the cognitive level of prejudice includes a person's and group's beliefs as threatening or non-threatening, etc., the emotional level of prejudice includes the feeling that a minority group elicits in an individual...the level of action-oriented prejudice is the positive or negative predisposition to engage in discriminatory behavior (p.