While the resulting effects of group position and prejudice often manifest in individual actions and beliefs, preliminary group definition stems from ____________.

A. a collective prescription of negative attributes to subordinate group members that rises from individual experience and interaction
B. a generational process that teaches members of the dominant group the traditional opinions held towards subordinate groups in general
C. an abstraction of subordinate groups that formulates itself within the public arena and public discourse
D. the natural human tendency to formulate hierarchical structures and the instinctual need for a feeling of authority over others


C. an abstraction of subordinate groups that formulates itself within the public arena and public discourse

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