Social Pressures and Intergroup Relations
Social Pressures
Please respond to the following:
Identify two (2) social pressures that interfere with your success in academic pursuits. Suggest two (2) strategies that you might use in order to overcome the barriers to your success, and explain corresponding methods that you could use to implement the strategies in question.
Intergroup Relations
Please respond to the following:
Describe the role that dichotomous (black-and-white) thinking plays in intergroup perceptions. Give one (1) example from American society of the manner in which dichotomous thinking has resulted in stereotyping a particular community or ethnic group.