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This 4 page paper discusses Herbert Blumer's provocative article "Race Prejudice as a Sense of Group Position." Bibliography lists 1 source.
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prejudice is a tool that certain groups use deliberately to maintain a dominant position in society, and is not a result of individual beliefs. This paper answers specific questions about
his work. Discussion Main purpose of the article: The main purpose of the article is to present a new theory of racial prejudice. Blumers thinking is very different from what
others have said; many sources believe that prejudice is something that people learn from their parents, either by listening to them or watching the way they interact with others of
different ethnic backgrounds. But Blumer doesnt believe that; or at least in this article he argues for a different basis for prejudice. The key questions are how does Blumer define
prejudice, and do his observations make sense? The most important information in this article is Blumers recognition of the place that groups hold in society. He is not discussing gangs,
or businesses or other structured organizations, but much larger constructs, racial groups. His thinking leads us to the conclusion that even when people are not consciously prejudiced, their membership in
a racial group will determine their behavior. The main conclusions in this article are that the dominant racial group uses racial prejudice to maintain its position in society; that prejudice
is held not by individuals but by the society itself; and that "individual attitudes are shaped much more by the interactions of their racial group as a whole with other
groups rather than their personal experiences" (Shoemaker, 2005). Blumer also concludes that one group is able to feel dominant by defining other groups in "less favorable terms thus securing the
dominant racial groups position in society" (Shoemaker, 2005). Key concepts in the article include the four ways in which the dominant group defines itself and other groups in order to
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