The records are fascinating not only for the information about the primitives, but also for what they reveal of the investigating cultures' unconscious prejudices.
It would be impossible to compile such a book as this without giving way to prejudices, conscious or unconscious.
Previous cluster topics include unconscious prejudice and the law, immigration, randomness and computation, and cosmology and theoretical astrophysics.
Mr. Schlesinger admits the shameful errors of the past; even his own field was long dominated by the unconscious prejudices of white males.
He noticed that the unconscious prejudices can be stronger than conscious thought and that they are more dangerous since they happen outside of conscious.
Based on unconscious racial prejudice, sexist attitudes and nepotism might have a huge bearing in the real world as one might unconsciously show favoritism due to implicit attitudes.
Rounding out the ensemble is Selma (Margo Skinner), the couple's man-hungry next-door neighbor and landlady, who serves as a mouthpiece for the unconscious prejudices of supposedly sophisticated "straight" society.
The civil rights movement firmly established the notion of bias as unconscious prejudice, to the point where the protestation "I'm not biased" came to sound suspect.
Their editors and readers apparently recognize that conscious and unconscious prejudice persists in our society and that it may influence some juries.
He found that in Toledo, Ohio, and Alberta, Canada, where there were greater Slavic populations, mispronunciations occurred more often, which he believed was an example of unconscious prejudice.