Key Question

Question 1

What is the key question?

Answer 1

How can knowledge of social psychology be used to reduce conflict in situations such as rioting and crowd behaviour?

Question 2

What are the examples of negative situations in society?

Answer 2

Rioting behaviour
Football hooliganism
Protests causing conflict

Question 3

Rioting behaviour

Answer 3

NatCen 2011 (Tottenham Riots)
- This is when crown behaviour involves lashing out at other people or property, often expresses protest or a sense of grievance

Question 4

Football hooliganism

Answer 4

Hillsborough Tragedy
- Violence and destructive behaviour perpetrated by spectators and supporters of sport

Question 5

Where protests cause conflict

Answer 5

Black Lives Matter protests
- Public expression of objection of objection, disapproval or dissent towards an idea, ultimately leading to violence

Question 6

What are the negative impacts of negative situations in society?

Answer 6

Rioting behaviour
Football hooliganism
Where protests cause conflict

Question 7

Rioting behaviour - impacts

Answer 7

Businesses are looted, buildings, homes and shops are destroyed. People are arrested for displaying such violence

Question 8

Football hooliganism - impacts

Answer 8

96 victims died in the Hillsborough Tragedy and 760 were injured and this made public fear of going to games or being around drunk hooligans

Question 9

Where protests cause conflict - impacts

Answer 9

Sectioning people because of race: creates an in-group and an out-group which leads to discrimination. This witnesses violence at demonstrations, negative emotions such as fear or anger.

Question 10

What is crowd behaviour and what kind of negative impact does it have on society?

Answer 10

Those that occur at a group level gives deindividuation to the individuals so people are more likely to act in the group rather than have their own identity. This leads to people doing things just because everyone else is which could be very dangerous

Question 11

Why does society need to sort this issue out?

Answer 11

This is so that people don’t act within a group an lose their identity as this decreases the likelihood of crowd behaviour which is better in society in that people won’t act in a group which is harder to control

Question 12

What is an in-group or our-group?

Answer 12

In-group is the group that you believe you are apart of and is therefore superior. An outgroup is the inferior group and who you believe are not the same as you.

Question 13

How would ingroups and outgroups explain negative situations in society?

Answer 13

Explains football hooliganism as one group is seen as inferior because they support another football team.

Question 14

What is social comparison?

Answer 14

When two groups compare themselves to eachother to highlight the difference between them.

Question 15

How can social comparison explain negative behaviours in society?

Answer 15

The two groups compare what they have to eachother so football hooligans compare wins, trophies, stats and league standings to make themselves out as the better team.

Question 16

What is competition?

Answer 16

When groups strive to gain or deprive the other group of certain recourses etc

Question 17

How can competition explain negative impacts in society?

Answer 17

Competition arises between two protestors and who they are protesting to which leads to negative behaviours

Question 18

What is negative interdependence?

Answer 18

When one group believes that they can only strive if the other group is defeated

Question 19

Why can negative interdependence lead to negative social situations?

Answer 19

Riots occur to bring down the other group so that the other can succeed.

Question 20

What are scarce recourses?

Answer 20

When recourses are limited that the two groups compete to get this recourse

Question 21

Why do scarce recourses cause negative social behaviour?

Answer 21

Protests for recourses such as jobs/ money.
Also, football hooliganism for trophies

Question 22

What does social impact theory mean by number?

Answer 22

The number of sources trying to affect the target.

Question 23

How does number explain the cause of negative social problems?

Answer 23

The number of sources being high as in protests is going to have more of an effect which could be harder to control

Question 24

What does social impact theory mean by immediacy?

Answer 24

How close the sources are to the target in space and time

Question 25

How does immediacy explain negative social problems?

Answer 25

Protests that are near Government bodies such as the Houses of Parliament would have a higher effect which means people are more motivated to protest to make a change

Question 26

How do super-ordinate goals aim to reduce conflict?

Answer 26

Goals that both groups have to work together to achieve - causing them to help eachother and not see any prejudice against the other group.

Question 27

What is an example of super ordinate goals in real negative social situations?

Answer 27

Making football hooligans go to friendly matches where there is no competition and nothing to win so they have nothing to be precious over

Question 28

What is increased contact as an aim to reduce conflict?

Answer 28

Members of the group having more contact can decrease the hostility between them