Topic 8 - Prejudice and Intergroup Relations

Question 1

Stereotypes

Answer 1

beliefs and expectations about what members of a social group are like

Question 2

Prejudice

Answer 2

Evaluation of a person based on their group membership

Negative emotional responses or dislike (hostility) based on group membership

Question 3

Discrimination

Answer 3

Differential treatment based on group membership
The actual enactment of a prejudicial attitude

behavioural expression of prejudice

Question 4

Relative deprivation theory

Answer 4

a perceived gap between one’s expectations and achievements. Sense of having less than we feel we should be entitled to

Question 5

Realistic (group) conflict theory

Answer 5

intergroup conflict and prejudice arises as a result of group competition and the nature of goal relations between groups

Question 6

Social identity theory

Answer 6

Mere process of social categorisation (categorising yourself and others as group members) produces an implicit/unconscious effect on social behaviour

Question 7

social conditions increase the likelihood that negative intergroup relations will occur:

Answer 7

• competition (perceived or real)
• perception of threat (symbolic or real)
• categorise others as an outgroup members.

Question 8

Reduce negative intergroup relations, especially prejudice:

Answer 8

1. Education
2. Intergroup contact (bringing together opposing social groups)
3. Altering identity and goals (re-categorisation and superordinate goals, encourage opposing social groups to re-categorise their identities)