SOCI 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Realistic Conflict Theory, Ingroups And Outgroups
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Two key ideas: people categorize experience, then act on the basis of those categories, the social origins of categories get forgotten and then people come to see them as natural and unchangeable. Different societies divide time in different ways. 3 day weeks to 19 day weeks: classifications are somewhat arbitrary. If [people] define situations as real, then they are real in their consequences (thomas and thomas, 1928:52) How can our definition of reality be more important than the real. Reality : money its paper, threat levels from clothing. Prejudice: a negative attitude towards someone based soley on their membership in a a group. We have all see nor experienced prejudice. Would not mind having an immigrant ethnic minority as a boss: 77 percent males said they didn"t care, 89 percent females said they weren"t care. Young people have less prejudice acts * Prejudice stems from competition among social groups over valued resources or opportunities.
