Problem 3 Chapter 11 Flashcards
What is intergroup Behaviour?
Behavior among individuals that is regulated by those individual’s awareness of and identification with different social group
What is a metaheory?
Set of interrelated concepts and principles concerning which theories or type of theory are appropriate—> theory of how a theory works
What is relative deprivation?
Seem of having less than we are entitled to have
—> arises from comparisons between our experiences and our expectations
What are the two types of relative deprivations
Egoistic relative deprivation
Fraternalistic relative deprivation
What is the egoistic relative deprivation?
Individuals sense of deprivation relative to other similar individuals (personally feeling having a less that we are entitled to)
What is fraternalistic relative deprivation?
Comparisons with dissimilar others )(our group has less than it is entitled to have
What is a J curve?
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
What is a protest?
For a social food or against a social I’ll -> involves the clash of ideas and ideologies between groups
What are superordinate goals?
Goals that both groups desire but that can only be achieved by both groups cooperating
What is a realistic conflict theory?
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
What is game theory,
A social dilemma that addresses prisoners dilemma, trucking game and commons dilema
What is the minimal group paradigm?
Experimental methodology to investigate the effect of social categorization alone in Behaviour
-> study of how quickly and easy you can form a group
What is a group mind?
What happens when people are in large groups (become primitive m, loss of personality , mindless ,loss of responsibility).
What is a social identity theory?
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
Schema of social identity theory
Look up page 14 of the summary
What is social identity?
The part of the self concept that derives form our membership of social groups
What does social identity do?
Describe attributes
Prescribed what one should think and behave
What is the social change belief system?
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
What is collective Behaviour?
Ethel Behaviour of group in made in a crowd protest or riot
What is deindividuation?
Process whereby people lose their sense of socialized individual identity and engage in non social Behaviour
More impulsive reacting without thinking
What is emergent norm theory?
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
How do you improve intergroup relations?
Intergroup contact, integrates thread model
Collective narcisssism
Contact hypothesis
Extended contact effect
Common ingroup identity model
Color blind
Superordinate goals
Bargaining
Mediation
Arbitration
Conciliation
What is collective narcissism?
Group develops a strong sense of ethnocentrism high unstable self esteem
What is cjntaxt hypithesis?
View that bringing members of opposing. Social groups together will improve intergroup relations and reduce prejudice and discrimination
