Reducinb Prejudice Flashcards
Sherif summer camp
conflict resolution, sheer and forceful contact can make it worse, shift goal, work together and giving a win win situation (positive interdependence). Ingroup preference but many sat with out group.
Stroebe
Stroebe found exchange students not integrating because of stereotypes, USA studies suggest minorities are segregated, minorities rebel- taking education seriously becomes a ‘white’ stereotype. Sometimes people are labelled by own ethnic group if they do a stereotypically different thing.
Rupert brown
Rupert Brown critiques summer camp study- going back to own separate communities= short term effects, but ideal conditions to help reduce prejudice are not met. No evidence for this working- intergroup attitudes are not positive in mixed schools.
Sheer contact
Direct contact of the two or more groups
Contact hypothesis
Contact hypothesis-Allport equal status, common goals, institutional support (there are already different status, how can there be support if they do not recognise this social problem).
Aronsons Jigsaw Classroom
Aronson jigsaw classroom- education in western societies= competitive, difficult to foster education. Influenced by cognitive dissonance, we need to reduce it. Collaborative work in groups, deliberately selected. Evidence that prejudice is reduced and beneficial for self-esteem.
Argyle (Aronsons)
^ Argyle- intervention effects are small, risk of no resources to help, might not generalise, can make exceptions in own mind- subtype.
Hewstone
Hewstone- we need to retain our awareness and yet recognise other backgrounds, promote complimentary roles, see outgroup as varied and not all the same.
Dual identity approach
Dual identity approach- not see identity as threatened by outgroup.
Pettigrew
Part of prejudice is predicting the world, familiarity from contact, need longitudinal studies starting with children- Pettigrew. He proposes decat. and dual identity both wit final result being recat., stage based.
