L8 Intergroup relations and conflicts

Question 1

intergroup behaviour

Answer 1

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

Question 2

relative deprivation

Answer 2

sense of having less than we feel entitled too

Question 3

egoistic relative deprivation

Answer 3

feeling of personally having less than were entitled to, relative to our aspirations or t other individuals

Question 4

fraternalistic relative deprivation

Answer 4

sense that our group has less than its entitled to, relative to its aspiration or to other groups

Question 5

realistic conflict theory Sherri 1966

Answer 5

theory of intergroup conflict that explains intergroup behaviour in terms of the nature o goal relations between groups

Question 6

ethnocentrism

Answer 6

preference to our own group rather than others

Question 7

sherifs summer camp studies

Answer 7

1. friendship formation
2. in-group and norm formation
3. intergroup competition
4. intergroup competition

Question 8

minimal group paradigm

Answer 8

experimental methodology to investigate the effect of social categorisation alone on behaviour

Question 9

social categorisation

Answer 9

classification of people as members of different social groups

Question 10

superordinate goal

Answer 10

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

Question 11

contact hypothesis

Answer 11

bringing members of opposing social groups together will improve intergroup relations and reduce prejudice and discrimination

Question 12

conditions for contact all port 1954

Answer 12

prolonged and involve cooperative activity

equal social status

occur within framework of official and institutional support for integration