Ingroup

Case study report on the psychological issues within a football academy From the case study information, it is clear that the main psychology issue the football academy are struggling with is social identity. For example, the athletes are performing as individual’s trying to out win one another, from the behavioural observations it states that ‘the football players have been behaving as a bunch of individuals with little sense of belonging to an academy team’ and ‘it appears there is no…

being an African American student in higher education is the is the racial prejudice among students and faculty. This prejudice is caused by the in-groups formed within the school based on race. According to the scholarly article “The Effects of Ingroup and Outgroup Friendships on Ethnic Attitudes in College: A Longitudinal Study” by Shana Levin, he describes the in-groups in school causing a hostile environment and prejudice between minority students. Levin states “In fact, when outgroup…

the speaker thinks as normal or acceptable. However, in today’s world, society is much more tolerant of homosexual people and they have become a much more integrated part of society. “Fag” was used to develop an ingroup and an outgroup but homosexuals have become more welcomed into the ingroup. Therefore, the word is very rarely used in with its original intent. This idea can be seen in the episode when Big Gay Al gives a speech to the gay community of South Park where he says that the gay…

Examining researches, it has been suggested that the part of the problem with police violence against citizens is born of officers’ fears (Weaver, 2014). According to Weaver (2014), Gordon B. Moskowitz, chair of the psychology department at Lehigh University, suggestion is that the link between police violence and racism is not due to the fact that dislike and hatred of blacks by police officers. However, it is also guileless to suggest that those actions by the officers has no correlation to…

Their findings, considered in sum, confirm the existence of a mild ingroup-empathy bias. African-American participants in particular responded more strongly to both positive and negative portrayals of Black people. The researchers concluded that their results may have been affected by the overwhelming presence of White…

When trying to figure out who you are, your answer should not be limited to simply who you are as an individual, but should also include your interactions with others. We are given our lifetime to spend time with ourselves for reflection and time to spend with others. We should take advantage of both because they allow people to find out who they are through deep reflection, and through interactions with others than can help shape us into the people we are. During times of self reflection, we…

Humans have an inherent desire to be a part of a group. Belonging to something greater than themselves activates a sense of being of more than just a person. The need to belong is a major source of human motivation. Humans need to participate in a group just as a group needs people to participate. In order to be in a group, the members are required to have the same ideas, interests, beliefs for a successful society. Religions create a common moral understanding for all participants to be able to…

Because every successful movement needs to recognize all differences, and define those differences to hold the truth for all the people, for individuals regardless of the ingroup or outgroup, the feminist movements must focus on authentic inclusion in order to avoid distortions of difference/experience,to promote diversity and intersectionality, and to be truly successful. Methods I began by reading a collection of essays by Audre Lorde in her 1984 book Sister Outsider, to sense an enunciated…

Ting-Toomey and Chung define ethnic identity as, “ancestral heritage and perceived ingroup communal ties … based on, historical origin, race, religion, language, or perceived distinctive traits as a particular group” (Ting-Toomey and Chung, 2012). As mentioned earlier, my ethnic identity started to take shape in middle school, but high…

Body art and modifications Discrimination based on personal appearance is a big problem in modern society, though many people do not consider it a real form of prejudice. Despite their rise in popularity with the number of people with 2 or more tattoos doubling since 2007, tattoos in the workplace remain a contentious topic (STAPAW, 2012). Body art is art that is made with or put onto the body, tattoos are the main area of discrimination due to body art, body modifications are the artistic or…