HROB 2090 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Personal Identity, Ingroups And Outgroups, Visible Minority

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Human Resources and Organizational Behaviour
• Course: HROB 2090
• Professor: Thomas Sasso

Document Summary

Very common that people don"t want to talk about diversity. statistically white people scored higher than black people. That does not mean black people aren"t as intelligent. These tests were made by white people, they used textbooks that white schools used, referenced pop culture that was popular to white culture. Huge (cid:373)is(cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)u(cid:374)i(cid:272)atio(cid:374) that di(cid:448)ersity is o(cid:374)ly fo(cid:272)used o(cid:374) (cid:448)isi(cid:271)le (cid:373)i(cid:374)ority groups . People form perceptions of themselves (and others) based on their personal characteristics and memberships in social categories. Based on our unique personal characteristics, such as our interests, abilities and traits. Based on our perception that we below to various social groups, such as our gender, nationality, religion, occupation, etc. To make sense of and understand the world/social environment around us. Once a category is chosen, we perceive others and ourselves as embodying most typical attributes of that category (prototypes) Social categories are used to offer guidance in forming perceptions of others.