Social Categorization as a Manner of Creating Boundaries, Avoiding and Discriminating against the „Other(s)”
Social Categorization as a Manner of Creating Boundaries, Avoiding and Discriminating against the „Other(s)”

Summary/Abstract: As a pejorative or disparaging differentiation, discrimination points to exclusions, borders or the closure of the social world. Such negative behaviour towards „the other(s)” is the effect of a fixed social identity (social categorization), according to which people express stereotypes (beliefs) or prejudices (attitudes). The core of the present article is formed by these elements conjoined with the generic term „discrimination”. Therefore, this article is an analysis of the processes of maintaining discrimination-(re)producing boundaries.

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