The uncanny frailty of human bonds, the feeling of insecurity that frailty inspires, and the conflicting desires to tighten the bonds yet keep them loose, are the principal themes of this work by Zygmunt Bauman.
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According to research on attitudes toward immigrants, Americans consider immigrants to be an outgroup to the country, and experience negativity toward them for multiple reasons. The perception of immigrants as an outgroup is, however, ironic as most Americans have immigrant pred…
Economic inequality is associated with a host of social ills, and it harms the majority of those within an unequal society. In the U.S., however, the existence and persistence of racial inequality privileges White Americans as a group. I argue that White Americans are thus motiv…
The role of religion in intergroup conflict has been hotly debated, with some scholars arguing religion necessarily motivates intractable conflict, and an emerging body of work finding evidence religious belief can motivate intergroup cooperation. I focus on one aspect of this: …
Compilation of readings on the sociology of class stratification, social status and social structure - covers distributive and relational aspects of social inequality, and forms of discrimination and intergroup relations arising therefrom. Annotated bibliography pp. 381 to 384, …
The thesis explores the psychological antecedents of Islamophobic prejudice in the UK, through the lens of the Identity-Representations Model (IRM). The IRM attempts to combine the insights of Social Identity Theory, Intergroup Threat Theory, Identity Process Theory, Essentialis…
Intro; Group Processes; Contents; Preface; References; 1 The Reality of Groups; Definition; The Individual-Group Relationship; The Interpersonal-Group Continuum; Three Unifying Themes: Social Identity, Social Context and Social Action; Summary; Further Reading; References; 2 Gro…
"The fascinating true story of one of the most controversial psychological experiments of the modern era. Competition. Prejudice. Discrimination. Conflict. In 1954, a group of boys attended a remote summer camp in Oklahoma. There they were split into two groups, and encouraged t…