Intergroup conflict and the process of social change: Similar conflicts, different intragroup processes.

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 303-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Cárdenas ◽  
Roxane de la Sablonnière
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Intergroup Conflict ◽  
Intragroup Processes

Achieving Intergroup Cooperation through Conflict-Produced Superordinate Goals

1978 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 735-741 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lutfy N. Diab
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Qualitative Change ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Intergroup Conflict ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Group Relations ◽  
Effective Implementation ◽  
Prejudice And Discrimination ◽  
Superordinate Goals

The effectiveness of measures used to produce social change in real-life situations can be evaluated in terms of three sets of interacting and related factors: (1) the kinds of group relations involved, i.e., positive or negative, (2) the relative differential socio-economic power of the cooperating or conflicting groups, i.e., dominant or subordinate, and (3) the nature of social change involved, i.e., whether or not it implies a significant and qualitative change in the prevailing status quo. The major thesis of this paper is that the precondition for applying any measure to combat prejudice and discrimination is the preexistence of intergroup conflict perceived by the dominant groups as constituting a major threat, actual or potential, to the prevailing status quo. Superordinate goals produced by intergroup conflict are presented as a necessary prerequisite for the subsequent effective implementation of measures used to reduce intergroup conflict and hostility.

scholarly journals Duration and outcome of intergroup conflict influences intragroup affiliative behaviour

2008 ◽  
Vol 275 (1653) ◽  
pp. 2787-2791 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew N Radford
Keyword(s):  
Group Dynamics ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Intergroup Conflict ◽  
Breeding Pair ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Conflict Duration ◽  
Intragroup Processes ◽  
Potential Link ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Intergroup Conflicts

Theoreticians have long suggested that the amount of intergroup conflict in which a group is involved could influence the level of cooperation or affiliation displayed by its members. Despite the prevalence of intergroup conflicts in many social animal species, however, few empirical studies have investigated this potential link. Here, I show that intragroup allopreening rates are highest in green woodhoopoe ( Phoeniculus purpureus ) groups that have the greatest involvement in intergroup conflict. One reason for this relationship is a post-conflict increase in allopreening, and I demonstrate for the first time that both conflict duration and outcome influence subsequent allopreening rates: group members allopreened more following long conflicts and those they lost compared with short conflicts and those they won, perhaps because the former are more stressful. The increase in affiliative behaviour was the result of more allopreening of subordinate helpers by the dominant breeding pair, which may be because the breeders are trying to encourage helpers to participate in future conflicts; relative group size influences conflict outcome and helpers contribute more to conflicts than do the breeding pair. These results emphasize that our understanding of cooperation and group dynamics can be enhanced by investigations of how intergroup interactions affect intragroup processes.

Reasons to strike first

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Buckner ◽  
Luke Glowacki
Keyword(s):  
Intergroup Conflict ◽  
Small Scale

Abstract De Dreu and Gross predict that attackers will have more difficulty winning conflicts than defenders. As their analysis is presumed to capture the dynamics of decentralized conflict, we consider how their framework compares with ethnographic evidence from small-scale societies, as well as chimpanzee patterns of intergroup conflict. In these contexts, attackers have significantly more success in conflict than predicted by De Dreu and Gross's model. We discuss the possible reasons for this disparity.

Using the research on intergroup conflict in nonhuman animals to help inform patterns of human intergroup conflict

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda R. Ridley ◽  
Melanie O. Mirville
Keyword(s):  
Large Body ◽  
Nonhuman Animal ◽  
Intergroup Conflict ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Animal Groups ◽  
Interesting Article ◽  
Nonhuman Animals

Abstract There is a large body of research on conflict in nonhuman animal groups that measures the costs and benefits of intergroup conflict, and we suggest that much of this evidence is missing from De Dreu and Gross's interesting article. It is a shame this work has been missed, because it provides evidence for interesting ideas put forward in the article.

Cognitive psychology and social change.

1982 ◽  
Vol 37 (5) ◽  
pp. 592-593
Author(s):  
Leroy H. Pelton
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Psychology ◽  
Social Change
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