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16 Cards in this Set
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What an explanation for |
Prejudice |
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What cause prejudice |
Mere existence of groups As humans, natural tendency to form groups We identify ourselves as part of the group and classify others to be within or outside groups Create in and out groups = prejudice to out |
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What’s not needed for prejudice |
Conflict Being in a group and being aware of the different groups is enough |
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Stereotype |
Stereotypical judgements of other group Prejudice attitude towards other group based on their group characteristics eg age gender culture Tend to exaggerate differences between out groups and similarities within same |
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Consequence of prejudice |
Increase self image and enhance states of group by seeking negative aspects of others |
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Social categorisation |
Categorise ourselves and others of a member of a particular social group Assigning people to categories enable us to understand social environment Categories such as gender, social class and race |
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Social identification |
Adopt identify if the group we categorised ourselves in Begin to identify with in group, rather than just categorising ourselves to be part of it Confirm to group social norms and behave in ways appropriate to identify |
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Social comparison |
Compare in to out group Compare favourably to maintain self esteem: in group favouritism and out group negative bias |
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Eg in football |
Categorisation: to a supporter of particular team eg due to characteristics such as same area Identification: merchandise eg t shirts to show part of group Comparison: as rivals, attack eachother to increase own self esteem |
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Support sherif |
Mere existence of groups created prejudice in stage 1 |
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Other supporting study |
Lalonde Studied hockey team playing badly and was aware other wan was better at playing Still said their tactics were dirtier Lalonde watched back and disagreed So the hockey team identified the better playing team as an out group and showed negative our group bias to increase their self esteem |
Lalonde |
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Ao3 of sherif |
High ecological v as field experiment Low r as field so can’t replicate Low v as field so can’t infer cause and effect as no control over extraneous variables |
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Opposing |
Found prejudice rose when competition introduced eg rattlers burned flag So competition is sig factors in prejudice Social identify theory not consider this |
Sherif |
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Different |
Realistic conflict Not group formation from limited resources |
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Application |
Social identity states .... explain holocaust events Nazi germans attempted to get rid of our group, Jews to increase self esteem Showing groups can lead to fatal prejudice eg genocide |
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Reductionist |
Solely focus on group formation Simplistic Ignore historical context, competition |
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