SOCI 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Realistic Conflict Theory, Ingroups And Outgroups, Protestantism
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Prejudice negative attitude towards someone based solely on their membership in a group. 11-year-old boys sent to a summer camp homogeneous group, stable white, protestant, middle class competition builds prejudice, cooperation reduces prejudice contact is not enough to reduce prejudice. Necessary conditions to reduce prejudice = groups must be roughly equal in status, involve cooperation and interdependence, contact must be informal difficult to produce these necessary conditions use the internet to reduce prejudice. Recategorization = individuals in different social groups come to see themselves as members of a single group. Leads to more positive attitudes towards each other. Multiculturalism based on pluralism belief that ethnicity and conflict are central features of societies ethnicity as an essential aspect of individual identity and group behaviour opposite of assimilation. Multiculturalism act = passed in 1988, pledges federal assistance in bringing about equal access and participation for all canadians in the economic, social, cultural and political life of the nation.
