SOCI 1 Chapter Notes - Chapter Article Notes: Dynamite Entertainment, Ingroups And Outgroups, Social Inequality
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Soci 1 article notes perceptions of racial group competition: extending blumer"s. Sense of group position: attention to feelings of threat from other social groups, identifying feelings as dynamic forces in intergroup social and political relations; blumer. The simple self-interest model: clash of material interests. The classical prejudice model: prejudice as a learned behavior. The stratification beliefs model: beliefs about social inequality affect how people see others. Blumer"s group position model: hostility from historically developed judgements about the positions in the social order that members should rightfully occupy, belief about in-group superiority/in-group preference, ethnocentrism. Longer the period of relations between two social groups, the more stratified the group positons are. Job competition: political competition, housing competition, economic competition, black people more likely to be seen as competitors than other groups. Social location of perceived threat: well-educated whites less threatened, ged-holding whites most threatened.
