CAS SO 207 Chapter Notes -Muzafer Sherif, Gunnar Myrdal, Social Distance
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Key concepts in dominant-minority relations (4 concepts: distinguish between individual analysis and group analysis (psychological vs. sociological) and trace connection, thought vs. action relationships, individual level: prejudice vs. discrimination, group level: ideological racism vs. institutional discrimination. Generalizations that are thought to apply to group members: affective prejudice, we can say someone is prejudiced to the extent that they use stereotypes in his. Divided campers into two groups (rattlers vs. eagles) and competed, expressed negative feelings (prejudice) against other group. Sherif attempted to reduce harsh feelings and bring together groups, but they just expressed their enmity. Doyle and aboud (1995) found prejudice was highest in kindergarteners and decreased by third grade. To close kinship by marriage, to my club as personal chums, to my street as neighbors, to employment in my occupation, to citizenship in my country, as visitors only to my country, would exclude from my country. We rank the same from year to year (northern europeans, poles, and.