ABC's of Scapegoating

2021 Reprint of the 1959 Edition. Third Revised Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. The primitive ceremony of transferring the sins of a people onto a goat is described. Predilection leads to prejudice, prejudice expressed to discrimination, and discrimination to scapegoating. Allport discusses the motives underlying scapegoating, the sources of race prejudice in children, types of scapegoaters, what victims are chosen as well as the victim's reactions, the forms scapegoating take, and methods of combating scapegoating.