PSY435H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Lieu-Dit, Ingroups And Outgroups, Neoliberalism
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Resource scarcity has negative impact on psychological processes in many ways- individual scale- stressful. Community scale- scarce environment will lead to escalation of social conflict, You get an escalation and spiral of violence, resource inequality (violence resource inequality). Negative. limited resources can also lead to positive scenario -fosters innovation- harmonious, equal money, equal power, justice. Darfar- climate change (drought) economic factors (water, land productivity) social factors (prejudice, anger, ingroup- outgroup thinking, behavior aggressive). so what happened in darfar can be explained by many levels- from a govt corruption story, to a climate change story. Look at more proximal things- like economic or social. This intertwined of env factors with more collective and individual factors- call tell story in many ways! Have to consider content says environmentalists. individual level scale- persons- how environment effects psychology. collective level (meso)- looks at how environment affects social processes or env affects outcomes of collectives (families, communities).
