PSYCH 3CD3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Scientific American, Henri Tajfel, Social Order
16 Jan 2017
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Apparently the mere fact of division into groups is enough to trigger discriminatory behaviour. Intergroup discrimination is a feature of most modern societies. The attitudes of prejudice toward outgroups and the behaviour of discrimination against outgroups clearly display a set of common characteristics between societies. Rational intergroup conflict: the conflict and attitudes that go with it reflect a genuine competition between groups with divergent interests. Irrational intergroup conflict: the conflict and attitudes serve to release accumulated emotional tensions. Once the process of discrimination and prejudice is set in motion, a spiral begins. Children"s attitudes toward other countries are established fairly early on in life and are highly similar between themselves (social learning and conformity) Social norms: an individual"s expectation of how others expect him to behave and his expectation of how others will behave in any given social situation. Social order is constructed by categorization into we (ingroup) and they (outgroup)
