INDIVIDUAL PROCESSES IN INTERGROUP BEHAVIOR ................................ 3 From Individual to Group Impressions ...................................................................... 3 GROUP MEMBERSHIP AND INTERGROUP BEHAVIOR .................................. 7 The Scope and Range of Ethnocentrism .................................................................... 8 The Development of Eth...

This paper seeks to understand first how social connections have evolved in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a postconflict successor state, over the last two decades and second whether social connections may play a role in attenuating separatist and self-exclusionary beliefs, using a dataset collected just before the collapse of the former Yugoslavia. In post-conflict societies, low levels of social in...

Parents and teachers in India completed questionnaires giving details about the quality of children’s sibling and peer relationships. Analyses of social skills of children with and without siblings revealed no significant difference between the two groups on aggressive, asocial and prosocial behavior. Additionally, warmth and conflict in children’s sibling relationships were not associated with...

female- headed house holds as one of social harmful groups in front of various problems in life among exist conflict at family. the work roles cause doual roles which are important problem for wemen. in this research, effort to use from grounded theory method and done deep interview to 25 person from female- headed house holds refer to main problem of this women. results data analysis and parad...

Approximately half of all people living with HIV in the US are age 50 and older. Existing research highlights the health challenges of these individuals, but little work has focused on gathering input about concerns in participating in HIV and aging research. Prior to designing a prospective cohort study on HIV and aging, we elicited feedback from potential participants on general attitudes tow...

This paper investigates how people subdivided in social groups behave in an economy without property rights. Facing a linear production technology groups follow Markovian strategies for consumption and investment. Additionally, they may spend effort in an appropriation contest. For a symmetric society I show that conflict prevents investment and growth. In a society at peace economic growth may...

The origin of cooperation is a central problem in evolutionary biology and social science. Cultural group selection and parochial altruism are popular but controversial evolutionary explanations for large-scale cooperation. Proponents of the cultural group selection hypothesis argue that the human tendency to conform—a consequence of our reliance on social learning— maintained sufficient betwee...

Numerous approaches in the social sciences either refuse to consider or minimize the importance of conflict in community, or else replace it with a Spencerian vision of the social struggle. Between these two extremes there is considerable space for us to consider conflict as a relationship; this is what differentiates it from modes of behaviour involving war and rupture. Sociology suggests diff...

Much of the debate over the security implications of climate change revolves around whether changing weather patterns will lead to future conflict. This article addresses whether deviations from normal rainfall patterns affect the propensity for individuals and groups to engage in disruptive activities such as demonstrations, riots, strikes, communal conflict, and anti-government violence. In c...

Religious distinctions are key to social and symbolic bouundaries in many societies, and most certainly so in Northern Ireland. The historical patterning of religious opposition, most particularly perhaps in the conservative character of the forms of Protestantism and Catholicism in Ireland, is clear. Recent works have traced the many ways religion has fed into conflict in the present, and the ...