Outgroup

between black and white groups. Through my plan, I will work to reduce prejudice, discrimination, and intergroup conflict, which defined as the conflict between groups who categorize themselves as similar and who hold increased prejudices towards an “outgroup”. My plan for reducing conflicts…

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…

While looking at these Tumblr posts and reading the article concerning these posts, they reflect outgroup bias in the sense that they both have a negative outlook toward the feminist because they lack true knowledge concerning the group. Depending on the person, feminism can mean an array of things. According to our text, “we tend to hold unfavorable attitudes toward outgroup interactions because of our ignorance of their cultural values and norms” (pg. 43). Looking at the Tumblr posts, half of…

people into social groups based on common attributes and actions that have been observed by specific groups. When creating these ingroups and outgroups, we tend to overestimate the differences between two groups and underestimate the differences within our own ingroup to save cognitive time and energy. As a result of this cognitive shortcut, we form outgroups specific associations, that could rob people of their individuality and many other qualities of life which is completely dependent on the…

The Effects of Prejudice, Stereotype & Discrimination Sherry H. Priester Psy 301: Social Psychology Dr. Nekita Fuller June 22, 2015 Prejudice, stereotypes and discrimination has existed in our world for a long time. These types of practices are used to prove what group is more superior among over another group or an individual (Feenstra, 2013). Today we live in a very cultural and ethnically world that embraces our differences. Because of the different beliefs and social practices…

Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” is a play that exhibits brutal accusations, human indecency, and a scramble for power. My Chemical Romance’s song, “Teenagers”, is about fitting in, taking a stand, and class struggle. There are numerous parallels between Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” and My Chemical Romance’s “Teenagers” including class struggle, fear, corruption of power, in and out groups, image, and human nature. Arthur Miller wrote “The Crucible” as a result of the fear of communism in…

Social psychology consists of three major topics including social behavior, social influences and social cognition. They all relate to interacting with others either through body, language, or verbally. Emotions play a big part on how someone will react in a situation or respond to a negative feeling. The body and brain will signal each other how to move according to the three effects of social psychology. In the article “Acta Facultatis Educationis Physicae Universitatis Comenianae” by Petra…

This paper aimed to determine the effect of a different strength of belief in free will form a different level of sexual prejudice toward homosexual men. To specify the effect, there were two hypothesis drawn. Firstly, the strong belief in free will provides the functionality to produce less explicit prejudice towards homosexual men than the lacking belief in free will. Secondly, the heterosexual male and female’s prejudice toward homosexual men is formed more in high free will belief condition…

that are the same as you. For an example, if a werewolf named George joins a group with other werewolf’s that would be George’s ingroup. Outgroup is when you are the different from others. For an example Jeff is a vampire and friends with George. Jeff doesn't understand how George reacts to a full moon, or how good his nose is. Jeff would be considered an outgroup. Formal organization is a social system that is structured by having clear rules, goals, and practices. It is based off the division…

lot to do with own cultural, social, and individual circumstances. If we grow up thinking that women’s sports are not as important as male sports the coverage is going to be very low because once again they are being looked at as the outgroup. Having them as an outgroup and having those gender stereotypes can come with consequences. Those consequences include the social construction of gender and gender difference, the stratification of society by gender, and strengthening of the myth of female…