CHYS 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Group Conflict, Stereotype Threat, Acculturation

• School: Brock University
• Department: Child and Youth Studies
• Course: CHYS 1F90
• Professor: Dawn Zinga

Document Summary

Lecture ten: social challenges and diversity: critical question. In what ways can diversity be defined: identity. We have a need to be both different and to belong in groups. Identity is self-definition, sense of who one is, where one is going in life, and how one fits into society. It is also related to the connections we make with the other (group or individual who seems to be different) Sense of in group (dominant and in power) and out-group (group that is subject to power) Everything around us can both challenge or support identity. People agreed to participate in experiment going in blind to being a guard or prisoner http://www. prisonexp. org. Showed how we deindividuate and become the roles we are given. Philip zimbardo has students at stanford u play the roles of prisoner and prison guards in the basement of psychology building. They were given uniforms and numbers for each prisoner.