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| cultural orientation in which personal goals and preferences take priority over grp allegiances |
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| cultural orientation where cooperation and harmony take precedence over purely personal goals |
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| 3 key factors to cultures being collectivistic or individualistic |
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1) Complexity: affiliations to various groups
2) Affluence: focus on prosperity
3) Heterogeneity: how homogeneous society is in identifying with one another |
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| the classification of persons into groups based on sommon attributes |
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| Outgroup-homogeneity bias |
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| the tendency to think that "they" are all alike |
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| Realistic-conflict theory |
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| theory that prejudice stems from intergroup competition for scarce resources |
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| tendency to discriminate in favour of ingroups over outgroups |
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| theory tt pple favour ingroups and discriminate outgroups in order to enhaance own self esteem |
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| 2 theories for motivation to prejudice |
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Realistic conflict theory
Social identity theory |
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| 2 steps for stereotypes to form |
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1) pple naturally divide others into race, sex, gender, etc- social categorization
2) groups the person identifies with more will be considered ingroups, the others outgroups, magnifying differences and giving rise to need for building self esteem, be it social or personal |
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| proposition that in certain conditions, contact between rival groups will improve relations (eg desegregation of perviously racially divided institutions) |
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