Intergroup Relations Flashcards
Intergroup Attitudes
Feelings, Thoughts and Behaviours
- Feeling, Thinking, Doing
- Prejudice, Stereotype, Discrimination
Realistic Conflict Theory
Competition over scarce resources lead to conflict
- Resources include: land, political power, money, food
Zero-sum game
Increase ingroup hostility
Ethnocentrism
Outgroup Stereotypes
Intergroup Competition
Sherif’s Robber Cave 1954/1961
1) Group Attachment
- Pitching a tent, cooking, bridge building
2) Intergroup Competition
- Tug of War, Outgroup Antagonism
3) Intergroup Reconciliation
- Superordinate Goals: Water Tank, Stranded Bus
Hovland and Sears (1940)
Economic scarcity -> Intergroup Violence
Number of lynching increases when price of cotton dropped
Functional Relations
Competition -> Conflict
Cooperation -> Harmony
- Superordinate Goals
Relative Deprivation
Subjective belief that you or your group are worse off than a similar other
Responses to Relative Deprivation
Individual-based deprivation -> stress
Group-based deprivation -> protest
Types of Protest
Exit - leave the system
Voice - voice discontent
Loyalty - feel loyal to the system
Neglect - letting it all go to hell
Dimension of Protest
Active/Passive
Constructive/Destructive
Minimal Group Paradigm
Mere social categorisation can lead to ingroup favouritism
Taifel et al. (1971
Minimal group paradigm
- distribute money study
- ingroup favouritism
- maximise differences
Social Identity Theory
Self-esteem affected by intergroup comparisons
Self-enhancement motives -> favour ingroup
Reducing Intergroup Conflict
Contact Theory (Allport 1954) Optimal conditions: 1) Equality of status, common goals, intergroup cooperation, authority support
Common Ingroup Identity Model
Use ingroup favouritism -> intergroup bias
