The journal article, “Inter-Group Helping Relations as Power Relations: Maintaining or Challenging Social Dominance Between Groups Through Helping”, was written by Arie Nadler of Tel Aviv University. This particular journal article will discuss if in groups and outgroups establish or challenge dominance by helping others. This journal article will also see if a model of inter-group helps the relations based on the integration of insights and factual findings from social psychology on the helping relations and also the social identity process. Based on the research of social psychology of helping others, the behavior has focused on interpersonal helping which is the purpose of helping others and also, hasn’t paid much attention to the problem of the intergroup helping.
This particular journal article will examine the intergroup and helping relations. The links of inter group helping will be examined and discuss the affirmative action of the programs. The model that is presented on intergroups that is presented will rests on two premises. The first premises will be based on the social identity theory, which is the theory that people favor in ingroups over outgroups in order to enhance their self-esteem (Kassin, et al., 2017). The second premises will be drawn from the integration of the literature on ingroups and helping relations.
The hypothesis of this journal article will be above the model that lie ahead of the direct empirical support. The low groups main concern is the research that is needed to be done to seek help from members of a higher status group. Concerning the higher status groups, research will need to be conducted to see if members from the group will seek and accept help from a lower status group. The findings of this article, suggest when members of a lower status group strive from social equity, which is being dependent on someone of a higher group it will cause issues with their social identity and fellow members will not accept help from higher groups. Secondly, when members of the high group have high social status, this may threaten their own social identity.
The main point that is stressed, is the likelihood to receive help from an outgroup and whether the help that is offered and accepted or rejected is dependent on autonomy. This may cause individuals perceptions to be strongly affected and the legitimacy and stability of the reverence of the inter-groups relations.
References
- Kassin, S., Fein, S., & Markus, H.R. (2017). Social psychology. Boston, MA: Cengage Learning
- Nadler, A. (2002). Inter-Group Helping Relations as Power Relations: Maintaining or
Challenging Social Dominance Between Groups Through Helping. - Schroeder, D. A., Penner, L. A., Dovidio, J. F., & Piliavin, J. A. (1995). The psychology of helping and altruism: Problems and puzzles. New York: McGraw-Hill.
