The Psychology Of Prejudice: Ingroup Love And Intergroup Hate?

Sociology as a study is one thing, but to really gain an understanding, you need to see it for your own eyes in action. So to study these sociological concepts, I observed student and faculty in the college cafeteria. Although nothing really surprised me, everything I saw correlated with my notes almost perfectly; thats what surprised me the most. The cafeteria is a great place to study the socialization of groups. As mentioned previously, much of what I saw in the cafeteria correlated with my notes very well, but something that stood out to me was role conflict. Role conflict is a situation when one or more of an individual’s roles clash. According to “sociology.about.com,” role conflict can take several different forms. When the roles are

The groups in the cafeteria were strangely organized. There were two real types of groups. Using sociological terms, there are in-groups, and there are out-groups. In-groups and out-groups are those groups which individuals tend to join as a result of social interactions. an in-group is a social group to which a person physiologically identifies as being a member. By contrast, an out-group is a social group with which an individual does not identify. In The Psychology of Prejudice: Ingroup Love and Outgroup Hate?, by Marilynn B. Brewer, “that attachment to one's ingroups does not necessarily require hostility toward outgroups. Yet the prevailing approach to the study of ethnocentrism, ingroup bias, and prejudice presumes that ingroup love and outgroup hate are reciprocally related (Brewer, 1999).” In other word, an in-group does not associate with an out-group because they do not like the out-group, but because there is a bias to those in the in-group. For example if you compare the two ends of the cafeteria, the student life zone is full of in-groups where everyone is always moving, yet the other end of the cafeteria has kids studying with their piers, yet does not associated themselves with other groups most of the

While we sat down, some of my friends asked the professor if it was okay to buy something while they were working. Of course it was, but why did they feel the urge to buy something. My question was could it be sociological? Of course it fit into my notes perfectly. When someone enters the cafeteria, consumerism is something that goes through the minds of the student. Consumerism is when you almost need to consume something for a specific reason. According to Colin Campbell’s definition in his book, Elusive Consumption, consumerism is “a social condition that occurs when consumption is “especially important if not actually central” to most people’s lives, and even “the very purpose of existence.” When this occurs, we are bound together in society by how we channel our wants, needs, desires, longings, and pursuit of emotional fulfillment into consumption of goods and services(Campbell, 2016).” My friends felt like they needed to eat something, because they were in the cafeteria, yet in my opinion I don’t believe that they would feel this urge if we remained in