Problem 3 Chapter 11

Question 1

What is intergroup Behaviour?

Answer 1

Behavior among individuals that is regulated by those individual’s awareness of and identification with different social group

Question 2

What is a metaheory?

Answer 2

Set of interrelated concepts and principles concerning which theories or type of theory are appropriate—> theory of how a theory works

Question 3

What is relative deprivation?

Answer 3

Seem of having less than we are entitled to have

—> arises from comparisons between our experiences and our expectations

Question 4

What are the two types of relative deprivations

Answer 4

Egoistic relative deprivation

Fraternalistic relative deprivation

Question 5

What is the egoistic relative deprivation?

Answer 5

Individuals sense of deprivation relative to other similar individuals (personally feeling having a less that we are entitled to)

Question 6

What is fraternalistic relative deprivation?

Answer 6

Comparisons with dissimilar others )(our group has less than it is entitled to have

Question 7

What is a J curve?

Answer 7

Is a graphical figure that captures the way I. Which relative deprivation arises when attainments suddenly fall short of rising expectations

->how people construct their future expectations from last and current attainment

Question 8

What is a protest?

Answer 8

For a social food or against a social I’ll -> involves the clash of ideas and ideologies between groups

Question 9

What are superordinate goals?

Answer 9

Goals that both groups desire but that can only be achieved by both groups cooperating

Question 10

What is a realistic conflict theory?

Answer 10

Theory of inter group conflict that explains inter group Behaviour in terms of nature or goal relations between groups

—> individuals who share goals requiring interdependence for their achievement tend to cooperate and form a group

—> individuals who have mutually exclusive goals engage in inter individual competition

Question 11

What is game theory,

Answer 11

A social dilemma that addresses prisoners dilemma, trucking game and commons dilema

Question 12

What is the minimal group paradigm?

Answer 12

Experimental methodology to investigate the effect of social categorization alone in Behaviour

-> study of how quickly and easy you can form a group

Question 13

What is a group mind?

Answer 13

What happens when people are in large groups (become primitive m, loss of personality , mindless ,loss of responsibility).

Question 14

What is a social identity theory?

Answer 14

Theory of group membership and intergroup relations based on self categorization, social comparison and the construction of a shared self definition in terms of ingroup defining properties

Question 15

Schema of social identity theory

Answer 15

Look up page 14 of the summary

Question 16

What is social identity?

Answer 16

The part of the self concept that derives form our membership of social groups

Question 17

What does social identity do?

Answer 17

Describe attributes

Prescribed what one should think and behave

Question 18

What is the social change belief system?

Answer 18

Belief that intergroup boundaries are impermeable. A lower status individual can improve social identity only by challenging the legitimacy of the higher status group position

Question 19

What is collective Behaviour?

Answer 19

Ethel Behaviour of group in made in a crowd protest or riot

Question 20

What is deindividuation?

Answer 20

Process whereby people lose their sense of socialized individual identity and engage in non social Behaviour

More impulsive reacting without thinking

Question 21

What is emergent norm theory?

Answer 21

Collective Behaviour is regulated by norms based on distinctive Behaviour that arises in the initially nor less crowd

—> how a norm emerges from the crowd

Question 22

How do you improve intergroup relations?

Answer 22

Intergroup contact, integrates thread model

Collective narcisssism

Contact hypothesis

Extended contact effect

Common ingroup identity model

Color blind

Superordinate goals

Bargaining

Mediation

Arbitration

Conciliation

Question 23

What is collective narcissism?

Answer 23

Group develops a strong sense of ethnocentrism high unstable self esteem

Question 24

What is cjntaxt hypithesis?

Answer 24

View that bringing members of opposing. Social groups together will improve intergroup relations and reduce prejudice and discrimination

Question 25

What is the extended contact effect?

Answer 25

Knowing about an ingroup member who shares a close relationship with an outgroup member can improve ones own attitudes about the out group

Question 26

What is the common ingroup identity model?

Answer 26

If members of opposing groups can be encouraged to categorize themselves as members of the same group intergroup attitudes will disappear

Question 27

What is color blind?

Answer 27

Ignore group differences completely

Question 28

What are superordinate goals?

Answer 28

Shared goals that are unachievable by either group alone

Question 29

What is bargaining?

Answer 29

Process of intergroup conflict resolution where representatives reach agreement through direct negotiation

Question 30

What is mediation?

Answer 30

Process of intergroup conflict resolution where a neutral third party intervened in the negotiation process to facilitate settlement

Question 31

What is arbitration?

Answer 31

Process of intergroup conflict resolution in which a neutral third party is invited to impose a mutually binding settlement

Question 32

What is conciliation?

Answer 32

Prices whereby groups make cooperative gestures to one another in the hope of avoiding an escalation of conflict