Contextual Effects of Intergroup Contact

Question 1

Relationships between variables at different levels (3):

Answer 1

• Macro level: societal
• Meso level: groups (dual-identity occurs here) (SDO hierarchies)
• Micro level: individual

Question 2

Sociological aspects of macrosystems:

Answer 2

Overall, we are humans embedded in contexts

Question 3

EX: when someone low in authoritarianism.. (Schmimon example)

Answer 3

○ Seeing other ingroup members expressing prejudice
○ Lives within a government supportive of prejudice
- WE ARE GROUP CREATURES - WE WANT TO FIT INTO THE GROUP
- Macro-level effects can overcome individual variables

Question 4

If we change the structure of the context, we can…

Answer 4

…disrupt automatic implicit attitudes

Question 5

Contact does not only change attitudes for individuals experiencing direct positive intergroup contact…

Answer 5

…their attitudes are also influenced by the behaviour of fellow ingroup members in their social context
- Contact by ingroup members in our context influences our attitudes over-and-above our own contact experiences

Question 6

The 5 benefits of looking at contextual effects:

Answer 6

• We get to tease apart some of the group-level variables, like, implicit attitudes - from individual to group-level functions (MacInnes et al., 2017)
• How these mediating variables form, and how they affect individual attitudes
• What type of contact affects social norms? Direct, extended, vicarious?
  ○ A: EXTENDED - it’s “who my friends are having contact with”, and this is what sets the social norm
• Living in a diverse neighbourhood where lots of people around you are having more contact (Contextual level) should lead to more tolerant social norms (contextual level)
• More tolerant social norms (at a group level), should result in less prejudice (individual level)

Question 7

The relationship between contact and social norms - Kauf:

Answer 7

• Living in areas where advantaged group members are having positive contact mobilizes disadvantage group members towards social action
• The more contact in these regional areas/countries lead to greater support of collective action amongst disadvantaged group members