Ingroup

Concerning the Toraja people of Sulawesi, Indonesia and the resentment the grew toward tourist when it came to altering ceremonies to attract tourist, Scollon and Scollon present the reasons for the resentment in the form of four cultural differences. These differences are ideology, socialization, discourse, and face systems. These four cultural differences served as motivation and explanation for the rejection of tourism by the Toraja people. Scollon and Scollon describe ideology as the groups…

Decision making is something that we do every day. It’s something that’s so habitual that we don’t even think about it. I know I never really thought about it until reading into how it’s done and what affects our decision. During Memorial Day weekend, I used System 2 decision making. This is a more conscious and logical method than system 1. When I went shopping to get new shoes, my sister told me that Payless had a “buy one get one half off” sale for memorial day weekend. I knew that Payless…

Gender is always a starting ground to point out differences in life and the same goes for communication. Gender roles are a subculture of modern day society. “Although very few actual differences in the communication of males and females are empirically documented, stereotypical assumptions, perceptions, and expectations concerning the linguistic behavior of the sexes persist” (1986, p.42). Women are more likely to go ask others what they think about an idea whereas men like the idea and run…

psychological mechanism of social grouping has become the predominant means of social intercourse. John Teehan, in his article entitled “Islam, Violence and the Religious Mind”, clarifies the meaning of social grouping by making a distinction between ingroups and outgroups; the social capacity to create mental categories (groups) has evolved as an adaptive trait to ensure social bondage, to the effect that the human species becomes dominant. An equally important feature of social grouping is…

a. Rationalisation of the status quo When the likelihood of rationalization of the status quo increases in individuals, the process also enhances their tendency to desire predictable events. This proposition proposed by system justification theorists lay importance on the capacity of individuals towards a rationalization process, which further allows them to support the very social system to which they belong by considering it as stable and secure. Jost &Hunyady (2003) emphasize that it is quite…

are different across cultures, especially in the case of values related to local identification. In a study between Brazilians and Spain, the author found, “Subjects that assigned more importance to privacy were less identified with traditional ingroups, independently of their national culture. Geospatial identification was based on the values religiosity and belonging for Brazilians,…

The cladogram represents living spaces and their relatedness to one another. The cladogram has five taxa in the ingroup that are defined as huts, cabins, houses, buildings and skyscrapers. The out-group is the tipi within the cladogram shown at the beginning of the cladogram to represent a trait shared by all. The cladogram represents the traits in order as living space, furniture, electricity, and height of more than one floor within the structure. These traits categorize the taxa within the…

of being able to be your own person yet still embrace others. I also believe that Bohm can help to break down the idea of such categories. Placing us into boxes is what essentially breaks us and our relationships apart. This idea ties in Myer’s “Ingroup and Outgroup”; which talks about the benefits and disadvantages of being in a group and on the outside of a group. If someone knows themselves to be an Independent, then that may force them to look towards others like them due to the stigma…

organization support. One of the reasons is that rewards are not distributed fairly, and employees don’t see their managers as supportive. Ingroup favoritism could be a reason that few employees perceive their organization as supportive while others don’t. According to Robbins (2015), “Ingroup favoritism is a perspective in which we see members of our ingroup as better than other people, and people not in our group as all the same” (p.245). While conducting a survey, we found that few people are…

sentence. In addition standing up for a their beliefs will cause confrontations and, according to Psychology Today, humans avoid confrontations because they are afraid that they can’t handle the situation. The next social factor is the idea of ingroup bias. Ingroup bias is the tendency to favor one’s own group. Racial bias occurs because people only trust the people in their own group, i.e their racial group. So whites trust white, blacks trust blacks, asians trust asians, and so on and so…