PSYCH 3CD3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Ingroups And Outgroups, Relative Deprivation
24 Apr 2016
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Gut or emotional reaction to feeling you"re not doing as well as you should. Feeling that your expectation of what your social position should be isn"t meant, and your pissed off because of it and what to do something about it. When frustrated we deal with this frustration by being aggressive. Target of aggression usually easy to kill, someway oppress or attack scapegoat. Folk theory: if i can get my frustration out on something it"ll lessen my aggression i"ll feel better after getting it out . Taking out frustration on group with no social power. Absolute deprivation you have nothing and have always been deprived so its not a big deal to you, you , ex. Homeless (not always associated with aggression or prejudice) Temporal comparisons expectations based on past experience. Intergroup comparisons expectations based on group comparisons. We don"t like to have discrepancy between actual and ideal thinking of our group or self.
