PSYC 363 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Contact Hypothesis, Spatial Analysis, Desegregation
13 Dec 2018
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Inter-group contact involves social interaction between collective identities, or when people are brought together to interact as groups. Cross-group contact is about meeting one other as individuals across (or despite) lines of difference; the interpersonal side of the process. Educational (re)segregation is tied to housing (re)segregation. When given choice, more affluent parents prefer to send their kids to more affluent schools, thus leading to very high levels of (re)segregation by ethic background and social class. A spatial analysis of informal segregation (alexander & tredoux, 2010) Sample: 26 groups of psyc 101 tutorials in a south african public university. In most tutorials, blacks and whites spontaneously sat in separate groups. Across 24 weeks (an entire academic year), segregation levels remained unchanged. And why? (al ramiah, schmid, hewstone, & floe, 2015, study 1) Study 1 literally charted the informal segregation in the cafeteria of a highly- mixed high school in the uk. Students were mostly white (59%) and asian (35%)
