1. Soc 319: Sociological Approaches to Social Psych Intergroup Conflict April 14, 2009

2. A. Intergroup Conflict: Actual conflict 1. Definition: conflict is the result of direct competition over resources a. Historical data b. Experimental data i. Sherif Robber’s Cave study.

3. B. How do groups differentiate themselves from one another? 1. Minimal group a. Tajfel studies No social interaction between groups No shared goals Participants unaware of others’ group membership 2. Social identity theory a. Studies of ethnic identity and language (e.g., Brown, 1988)

4. It’s difficult to differentiate “realistic” group conflict from perceived conflict To Die in Jerusalem http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUuBNdUP6ZA&f eature=related

5. C. How do groups perceive others? 1. Biased perceptions Stereotypic distortion (Park & Rothbart, 1982) Biased evaluation (Hastorf & Cantril, 1954) 2. Person perception (a review) Stereotype: Belief about a group of people Prejudice: Negative pre-judgment of a group and its individual members http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNXsRJgOTmk Discrimination: Negative behavior toward individual members of a group, based on a negative pre- judgment of that group These processes are very resistant to change!

6. “They saw a game”(Hastorf & Cantril, 1954) versus

7. D. Do prejudiced personality “types” exist? Personality: authoritarianism (Adorno) need for status (Grube; Crocker)

8. Authoritarian personality (Adorno)

9. E. Resolution of Intergroup Conflict? Superordinate goal (Sherif) e.g. post-911; rebuilding LA post-riots Intergroup contact Mere contact? Equal status contact (Stouffer et al.) Implications for policy re: education, residential and employment segregation?  Example: Brown v. Board of Ed (1953)  Example: affirmative action policy? Recategorization (Gaertner) Is this realistic, given literature on person perception and schema rigidity?

10. Rebuilding L.A. after the riots

11. Changing racial attitudes over time

12. Racial residential segregation: % who would need to move for neighborhoods to be racially representative/balanced

13. Education in U.S., pre-Brown v. Board of Education (1954)