Understanding Prejudice Assignment 1: Social Identity Theory and Stereotypes,
Prototypicality and Indispensability
Name:
Student number:
1.
A) Social categorization: Jane Elliot divides the class into blue and brown eyed groups.
Social comparison: Jane tells the children that blue eyed people are more intelligent, more
clean and more civilized than brown eyed people. So she establishes value differences.
Social identification: The children adopt their group membership. Raymond with blue
eyes shows pride and feels happy and thinks he is better than them while Sandra with
brown eyes does not like it and feels ashamed.
Psychological group distinctiveness: children with blue eyes enjoyed belonging to the
blue eyes group and tried to empathize their distinctiveness by refusing to play with
brown eyed children. Brown eyed children felt excluded.
B) I did not really find any examples. I found only one example of social competition when
the boy that got the blue collar on the Wednesday that grew so frustrated that he lashed
out by stomping on his table an being angry. He showed open resistance to the imposed
system.
2
A) 1. Individual mobility in which people seek to escape, avoid or deny that they belong to a
devalued group so they seek to be included in a group of a higher social standing.
Individual mobility emphasizes how the individual is different from other group
members.
2. Social creativity is a process in which group members try to change the intergroup
comparison by representing the ingroup in terms of positive characteristics.
3. Social competition which is a strategy where group members engage in conflict to
change the status quo.
B) In the case of social competition, the south American immigrants could organize protests
or collaborate with allies to protest against discriminatory policies. They could demand
fair immigration policies. Collective action could be protesting or lobbying against hate
speech or workplace exploitation. They also could protest for better access to education
and a fair system of healthcare. When people use this approach they directly address
inequalities by challenging the status quo. They seek recognition and equality for the
whole group.
3.
A) The Stereotype Content Model reflects these two core questions by the relative status of
groups and the nature of interdependence between groups. Relative status predicts if a
, target groups is seen as competent or incompetent and interdependence predicts if the
target groups is seen as nice or not. Stereotypes are created from the structural
relationships of groups in which non-majority groups are viewed as high on one domain
but low on the other. It is either highly competent but not nice or the other way around.
Stereotype content follow this pattern.
B) According to Katz and Braly’s 1933 study Jews were stereotyped as shrewd, mercenary,
intelligent, ambitious and sly. So they are seen as highly competent but not trustworthy.
This is threatening to the ingroup. Jews are seen as a group that is powerful enough to be
of danger and are unwilling to align with the majority. This stereotype provided a
psychological justification for the prejudice against jews and ultimately led to the
Holocaust.
4.
A) Common Ingroup Identity Model is a framework that proposes that a key means to
improving intergroup relations is encouraging members of different groups to conceive of
themselves as member of a single, more inclusive group rather than as two completely
separate groups.
The Ingroup Projection Model proposes that members of a subgroup consider their own
subgroup as more representative of the common category than other subgroups. They
think their way of being is a more typical version of the group while other subgroups are
seen as less representative.
B) CIIM explains that there will be support for military aid when Europeans see Ukrainians
as part of a shared identity. If Europeans feel that Ukrainian people belong then they will
have more empathy and will be more willing to provide assistance.
IPM shows that people may think that their own country is more representative as Europe.
They will see their country as more central and view Ukrainians as outsiders. This will
lead to them opposing aid.
Prototypicality and Indispensability
Name:
Student number:
1.
A) Social categorization: Jane Elliot divides the class into blue and brown eyed groups.
Social comparison: Jane tells the children that blue eyed people are more intelligent, more
clean and more civilized than brown eyed people. So she establishes value differences.
Social identification: The children adopt their group membership. Raymond with blue
eyes shows pride and feels happy and thinks he is better than them while Sandra with
brown eyes does not like it and feels ashamed.
Psychological group distinctiveness: children with blue eyes enjoyed belonging to the
blue eyes group and tried to empathize their distinctiveness by refusing to play with
brown eyed children. Brown eyed children felt excluded.
B) I did not really find any examples. I found only one example of social competition when
the boy that got the blue collar on the Wednesday that grew so frustrated that he lashed
out by stomping on his table an being angry. He showed open resistance to the imposed
system.
2
A) 1. Individual mobility in which people seek to escape, avoid or deny that they belong to a
devalued group so they seek to be included in a group of a higher social standing.
Individual mobility emphasizes how the individual is different from other group
members.
2. Social creativity is a process in which group members try to change the intergroup
comparison by representing the ingroup in terms of positive characteristics.
3. Social competition which is a strategy where group members engage in conflict to
change the status quo.
B) In the case of social competition, the south American immigrants could organize protests
or collaborate with allies to protest against discriminatory policies. They could demand
fair immigration policies. Collective action could be protesting or lobbying against hate
speech or workplace exploitation. They also could protest for better access to education
and a fair system of healthcare. When people use this approach they directly address
inequalities by challenging the status quo. They seek recognition and equality for the
whole group.
3.
A) The Stereotype Content Model reflects these two core questions by the relative status of
groups and the nature of interdependence between groups. Relative status predicts if a
, target groups is seen as competent or incompetent and interdependence predicts if the
target groups is seen as nice or not. Stereotypes are created from the structural
relationships of groups in which non-majority groups are viewed as high on one domain
but low on the other. It is either highly competent but not nice or the other way around.
Stereotype content follow this pattern.
B) According to Katz and Braly’s 1933 study Jews were stereotyped as shrewd, mercenary,
intelligent, ambitious and sly. So they are seen as highly competent but not trustworthy.
This is threatening to the ingroup. Jews are seen as a group that is powerful enough to be
of danger and are unwilling to align with the majority. This stereotype provided a
psychological justification for the prejudice against jews and ultimately led to the
Holocaust.
4.
A) Common Ingroup Identity Model is a framework that proposes that a key means to
improving intergroup relations is encouraging members of different groups to conceive of
themselves as member of a single, more inclusive group rather than as two completely
separate groups.
The Ingroup Projection Model proposes that members of a subgroup consider their own
subgroup as more representative of the common category than other subgroups. They
think their way of being is a more typical version of the group while other subgroups are
seen as less representative.
B) CIIM explains that there will be support for military aid when Europeans see Ukrainians
as part of a shared identity. If Europeans feel that Ukrainian people belong then they will
have more empathy and will be more willing to provide assistance.
IPM shows that people may think that their own country is more representative as Europe.
They will see their country as more central and view Ukrainians as outsiders. This will
lead to them opposing aid.
