Outgroup

Ceremony and A New Reflection on Racial Tension as a Current Event Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko has given me a new perspective on racial tensions/issues in the United States. Although the book is mainly focused on Native Americans, the broad idea of racial issues can be applied to the current events happening to people of all races. I especially gained a more thoughtful view of the recent events in Charlottesville, North Carolina. Ceremony has given me a deeper understanding of racial tension…

Numerous studies have been carried out on the various factors of Hate crimes, focusing on different aspects such as, minority groups, social domains, and ability/inability in reporting hate crimes and case outcomes. However, contradictory results are suggested within this research topic because only certain aspects are investigated, such as, religious motivated bias crimes. Byers and Jones (2007), Hanes and Machin (2014), and Walfield, Socia and Powers (2017) focus on Muslim populations and the…

Zimbardo was able to synthesize a list of certain conditions that explain how good people do bad things. One of Zimbardo’s ideas discusses that inherent evil is exhibited when the doers become an in-group under visible authority or a common goal, an outgroup is formed, consisting of the “done-to” victims of evil. The doers are often pressured by fellow group members persuading them to do tasks of evil to avoid being shamed or exiled. It can be seen many works of literature, such as The Crucible…

among us today. There are many speculations as to why gangs exist, but the most prominent reason seems to deal with people searching for a group identity, self-worth, or a family-like protection. “The reason that groups exist is because there are outgroups and this prompts people to sort out where they belong in reference to others” (Wood, 2014, p. 715). Some general causes of this are their upbringing is lacking a stable family or social life and they needed to find a social connection. When…

take over the world (Holocaust Encyclopedia?). In my opinion, Hitler had the qualities of an authorization personality. In chapter nine, authorization personality is a personality that is disposed to favor obedience to authority and intolerance of outgroups and those…

Racism is an ongoing issue throughout history, defined by the unfair treatment of individuals and groups, especially minority groups, leading to inequality of opportunities, resources and health (Paradies & Cunningham, 2012). The most common way racism is expressed is through the use of stereotyping, discrimination and prejudice due to one’s race, ethnicity or culture (Paradies & Cunningham, 2012; Kassin, Fein, Markus, McBain, & Williams, 2015). Racism is not just something that occurs at an…

more extreme than their own initial decisions. These groups can be temporary and as fading as being is a group for a study or they could be a lifelong identity. After an individual decides on a group, they may have ill feelings towards those in the outgroup. This can be seen particularly if they have strong team identification as seen in dysfunctional fans (Lee, 1985). When discussing aggression in sports fans, psychologists focused on the basics of aggression. Basic aggresion theories helped…

A derivative of the plant family Musaceae (Musa), the commercial banana has enjoyed international success as a popular dessert item in the modern developed world. Understandably, the advent of an uncontrolled banana blight would certainly have major repercussions on the world market; moreover, it would spell doom for the millions of subsistence farmers across the globe for whom bananas are still a staple food. This frightening scenario is not wholly unrealistic – in the 1890s, Gros Michel, the…

Do Physical Warmth Affect One’s Interpersonal Judgements? In nowadays, people tend to be more selfish and only care about themselves due to social norm. Indeed, people also think that others are also having the same minded as them. Why people have feelings of social coldness in nowadays? It is because of the weather or the environment become cooler? From the past, a lot of studies have examined that experiences of physical warmth could induce feelings of social warmth of people. People regulate…

Literature Review Most literature on parent/child coming out issues pertains to adult LGBT children and is written by social workers, psychologists, and physicians. Very little has been written regarding parents and adolescent coming out conflicts, and even less so about LGBT minorities. Key words: adolescence, coming out, gay and lesbian adolescents, Latino parents and youth, parents, intergroup conflict, social identity, family influence, teenage suicide, parent-adolescent conflict, religion…