Essays on Self-Justification

Vincent Parillo, who is the author for Causes of Prejudice, has a belief that prejudice levels are usually based on six main theories. These theories are self-justification, authoritarian personality, frustration, socialization, economic competition as well as social norms. These prejudice levels are outstanding in explaining how C.P.Ellis a former Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was, prepared to become a racist. According to Parillo, causes of prejudice are classified as psychological and sociological, he describes three variant psychological levels of prejudice, cognitive, action, and emotional oriented. He further explained that prejudiced individuals use self-justification as well as frustration as cornerstone for their racist beliefs ...

Prejudice and racism are two elements that have been extremely common in history. However, they have been mainly discussed in America where racism was most prevalent. Parillo puts across that there are two main classifications of causes of prejudice: sociological and psychological. However, each of these two classifications is explained in terms of what may be referred to as Parillo theories of prejudice. Psychological prejudice levels are cognitive, action oriented as well as emotional. He argued that prejudiced individuals use self-justification as well as frustrations as bases for racism. He further identifies three main sections of sociological prejudice: social ...