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Managing Diversity and Cohesion
Quick questions on Responding to prejudice and discrimination: N(A)-Level Social Studies cohesion
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What is education?Show answer
Education reduces prejudice by replacing ignorance with understanding. Schools teach children about different cultures, religions and the value of living in harmony, and public campaigns spread the same message to adults. Because prejudice often grows from not knowing or misunderstanding another group, teaching people about difference helps them see others fairly. Education works on attitudes, shaping how people think before prejudice can take hold.
What are contact between groups?Show answer
Contact reduces prejudice by breaking down stereotypes through real experience. When people of different backgrounds study, work, play and live together, they get to know one another as individuals, and unfair generalisations fall away. This is why common spaces such as schools, neighbourhoods and National Service matter: they create the everyday contact that turns "them" into people you know. Familiarity is one of the strongest cures for prejudice.
What is individual action?Show answer
Individuals reduce prejudice through their own choices: treating others fairly, refusing to spread stereotypes, speaking up against unfair remarks, and making friends across groups. Even with good policies, a harmonious society depends on ordinary people choosing to act well every day. Individual action sustains the work of education, contact and laws, because harmony is finally built in everyday behaviour.
What are no explanation of why an approach works?Show answer
Say how it reduces prejudice, for example by replacing ignorance with understanding.
What is no example?Show answer
Ground points with examples such as mixed schools, harmony education, or laws against stirring up hatred.
What is q1?Show answer
State two ways prejudice and discrimination can be reduced. [2 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
Explain why laws alone cannot remove prejudice. [3 marks]
What is q3?Show answer
Explain one way an ordinary person can help reduce prejudice. [3 marks]