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Reflection Week 2

Reflection Week 2

Q I will generally allow you to discuss your overall takeaways from the video, in particularly, how the content of Jane Elliot's experiment relates to issues discussed in both chapter 1 and 2. What does Jane Elliot say to the adult group at the prison in terms of assimilation allowing her to "fit in" with the better group? I'll include a few questions that may help you formulate your reflections below: • What features did Elliott ascribe to the superior and inferior groups and how did those characteristics reflect stereotypes about either minority or majority groups? • How did Elliott's discrimination create no-win situations for those placed in the inferior group? How did she selectively interpret behavior to confirm the stereotypes she had assigned? • Purpose of collar? (visibility) What did the children say about the collar? How does the collar relate to the social construction of racial/ethnic groups and its subsequent outcomes?

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The Features Used to denote Superior and Inferior Groups The features that Jane Elliot used to denote superior and inferior group are blue and brown eye. She taught the children that students with brown eyes are smarter than those who have blue eyes (Stewart, et al., 2003). She further went ahead to explain that since the students with brown eyes have extra melanin in their skin they are way more intelligent and the blue eyes students lacks it. This helps in understanding a matter so well.