11-01-04 Soc100-125 Essay #2 Opposites always attract like structural assimilation and prejudice vs. discrimination. In this essay that is what we will be talking about. Also what is the difference of prejudice and discrimination? And if there can be one without the other (ex. Prejudice without discrimination). Structural assimilation when an accepted set up of a societal moray is changed. In other words it is a switch up in a society standard. For example …
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…prejudice is an attitude (feeling) and discrimination is behavior (act). Stereotype is a prejudice because it's a feeling not a behavior. You do not act on stereotype you just feel it. Like saying midgets are all evil. Assimilation is like a melting pot in American. Everyone is doing everyone else culture. For prejudice and discrimination there is a lot of it. There is no stopping it because of how people feel towards a different race.