Discrimination And Out-Group Analysis

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Discrimination is an unfortunate occurrence that happens around the world. Many people tend to judge the differences others have from them; race and gender are common differences others judge upon while other variations such as language, culture, and beliefs can be as well (Understanding Discrimination). Depending on where a person falls in society can play how they are judged or what one judges. Leaders, in-groups, and out-groups are the types of social groups that influence or decide the behavior of the individuals in the groups (Macionis 110). There are three leadership styles that influence behavior of a group (Macionis 110). The teacher, Jane Elliott, took an authoritarian leadership style upon her third grade students. When she performed her experiment, she insisted that blue …show more content…
When a member is in an in-group, they are usually the ones emitting discrimination to others because they have a more positive outlook on themselves and not others out of their group (Macionis 112). When Jane Elliott listed all the perks of being blue eyed over brown eyed: smarter, five extra minutes of recess, can drink from the water fountain, and go to lunch first; it made one blue eyed child feel like he was a king and ruled over the brown eyed children (A Class Divided). For instance in the experiment, the blue eyed children would tease the brown eyed children by calling them “brown eyes” (A Class Divided). When the children were also a part of the in-group, blue eyed or brown eyed, it caused them to do better in class. On Tuesday when the blue eyes were the in-group, they were able to complete their phonics cards in three minutes, but when they were the out-group they did it in five minutes (A Class Divided). When asked why this was, they said they did not feel as good as yesterday when they were the in-group. Being the out-group causes people to feel down about