CHYS 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Realistic Conflict Theory, Single Parent, Group Conflict
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Social challenges and diversity ta notes: critical question. In what ways can diversity be defined: identity, we have a need to be both different and to belong in groups. Identity is self-definition, sense of who one is, where one is going in life, and how one fits into society. It is also related to the connections we make with other: sense of in-group (dominant/makes decisions/has the most power) and out- group, identity. What challenges our identity: everything around us can both challenge or support identity, separating yourselves from others and thinking who you really are. What does our racial identification have to do with identity? http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=eivx77oriis. Rutland (2013: talked about how children learn to actively control bias and prejudice, theory of mind, explicit intergroup prejudice seen to be related to social reasoning about mental states and group norms, a word about the readings.