Which of the following pairs of a situation and the strategy it shows for handling prejudice against a group is correctly matched?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → A teacher who judges each student by personal effort, not by community - Highlighting individual identity
Option (1) A campaign that gives facts about a group to correct stereotypes - Increasing intergroup contact — Incorrect. Giving facts to correct stereotypes is education and information dissemination. Intergroup contact needs the groups to meet and interact.
Option (2) Students from two communities working together on a joint project - Education and information dissemination — Incorrect. Working together on a joint project brings the groups into close, cooperative interaction. That is increasing intergroup contact.
Option (3) A teacher who judges each student by personal effort, not by community - Highlighting individual identity — Correct. Judging each student by personal effort puts the person before the community. This is highlighting individual identity rather than group identity, which weakens group as a basis of evaluating the other person.
Option (4) Members of two equal-status groups meeting often in a cooperative setting - Highlighting individual identity — Incorrect. Frequent cooperative meetings between equal-status groups meet the conditions for increasing intergroup contact.
NCERT (2026-27): “STRATEGIES FOR HANDLING PREJUDICE … “• Education and information dissemination, for correcting stereotypes related to specific target groups, and tackling the problem of a strong ingroup bias.” “• Increasing intergroup contact allows for direct communication, removal of” “• Highlighting individual identity rather than group identity, thus weakening the importance of group (both ingroup and outgroup) as a basis of evaluating the other person. …” |