social identity – Contemporary Racism

First Week of Class – Reaction to Class Activity

Jordan — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 07:38:57 +0000

One activity that I appreciated the first week of class was when we each wrote down our different social identities on note cards, mixed up the cards and redistributed them, and then had to say why or why not we thought the card we each received would be in our in-group or out-group. I found this interesting because it made me think about how arbitrary these social identities such as religion, sexual orientation, and disability ...

Accessibility & Fit

Liz — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 20:58:36 +0000

After reading this week’s articles what really stood out to me was the Hogg article on Social Identity Theory. In this article Hogg talked about the idea of groups and how individuals are placed or fit into their so called groups. In my opinion the most interesting part of this was what Hogg called accessibility and fit, what identities we find most and least important. In other words accessibility and fit is the system of ...