Describe an example of a past or current conflict between a group you belong to and some other group. First, use the research on the Social Identity Theory to explain underlying mechanisms behind this conflict. Then, suggest
Strategies based on the Intergroup Contact Hypothesis to reduce the conflict you described.
Groups have been labeled in an array of distinctive ways, past and present, this can include for example, Jews in Nazi occupied Europe, or by common experience like a friendship group or family.
For the purpose of this essay I will be quoting (forsyth, 1998, pp. 3):
“A group exists when two or more people define themselves …show more content…
One of the most fundamental categorization of social groups is male and female, both sides experience inequality and conflict to a certain degree. Difference between the sexes is a trendy topic in popular psychology of which John Gray's "Men are from Mars, women are from Venus' (1992) is a case in point. Gray's (1992) "Martians" and "Venusians", he says, are only stereotypes. Therefore, according to various writers, men and women are shaped by specific gender stereotypes that govern their everyday lives (Bem, 1981; Sandys, 2008; Bengu, 2005), The construction of these stereotypes has its foundation in the tender years of the individual through the process of socialisation; mainly expressed by specific and different attitudes and …show more content…
In particular, “four processes of change” have been used: Changing ones behavior, generating ties, understanding the out group and in group appraisal. (Pettigrew, 1998). Contact can, and does, work through both cognitive (Altering how indivduals think about an individuals own in group, understanding the out group) in the case of male and female groups can work towards understanding issues from both sides, behavioural (shifting one’s conduct to open oneself to potential positive contact experiences) this can be used in relation to sexism and negative biases created about women and open up new experiences such as working together to complete an equal goal like raising a child or making a community better, and also affective means such as creating feindships and eliminating negative feelings towards each other. A particularly important mediating mechanism (i.e. the processes or mechanisms by which connection achieves its effect) is that of affect or emotions, with evidence suggesting that contact works to eliminate or alieviate prejudice by diminishing negative affect (anxiety / threat) and inducing positive affect such as empathy towards the out group (Hewstone et al.,
Strategies based on the Intergroup Contact Hypothesis to reduce the conflict you described.
Groups have been labeled in an array of distinctive ways, past and present, this can include for example, Jews in Nazi occupied Europe, or by common experience like a friendship group or family.
For the purpose of this essay I will be quoting (forsyth, 1998, pp. 3):
“A group exists when two or more people define themselves …show more content…
One of the most fundamental categorization of social groups is male and female, both sides experience inequality and conflict to a certain degree. Difference between the sexes is a trendy topic in popular psychology of which John Gray's "Men are from Mars, women are from Venus' (1992) is a case in point. Gray's (1992) "Martians" and "Venusians", he says, are only stereotypes. Therefore, according to various writers, men and women are shaped by specific gender stereotypes that govern their everyday lives (Bem, 1981; Sandys, 2008; Bengu, 2005), The construction of these stereotypes has its foundation in the tender years of the individual through the process of socialisation; mainly expressed by specific and different attitudes and …show more content…
In particular, “four processes of change” have been used: Changing ones behavior, generating ties, understanding the out group and in group appraisal. (Pettigrew, 1998). Contact can, and does, work through both cognitive (Altering how indivduals think about an individuals own in group, understanding the out group) in the case of male and female groups can work towards understanding issues from both sides, behavioural (shifting one’s conduct to open oneself to potential positive contact experiences) this can be used in relation to sexism and negative biases created about women and open up new experiences such as working together to complete an equal goal like raising a child or making a community better, and also affective means such as creating feindships and eliminating negative feelings towards each other. A particularly important mediating mechanism (i.e. the processes or mechanisms by which connection achieves its effect) is that of affect or emotions, with evidence suggesting that contact works to eliminate or alieviate prejudice by diminishing negative affect (anxiety / threat) and inducing positive affect such as empathy towards the out group (Hewstone et al.,