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WINTER
2001
SYLLABUS Faculty Presenters: Scott Atran - Group Dynamics, Institute for Social Research (ISR) Justin Barrett - Institute for Social Research (ISR) Joe Henrich - School of Business and Anthropology Ram Mahalingam - Psychology Department Class time will be managed as follows: class will begin promptly at 9:10. Please arrive at 8:45 to have coffee and refreshments, and be prepared to start at 9:10. A faculty member will speak until approximately 9:45 on the topic of the day. All students should read the reading early in the week and submit interesting, provocative questions by Thursday afternoon. From 9:45-10:30 the faculty presenter will structure the discussion around the questions submitted. Students should be ready to participate actively in the discussion. 01/05/2001 Introduction: Goals and Structure of the Course ________________________________________________ 01/12 Religion and Social Domination (both readings required - Scott) Required Readings: Diamond, Jared (1997) Guns, germs, and steel: The fate of human societies. New York: W.W. Norton. (Chapter 14, “From Egalitarianism to Kleptocracy,” pp. 265-292.) Watanabee, J. & Barabara Smuts (1999) Explaining ritual without explaining it away: Trust, truth, and the evolution of cooperation in Roy Rapport’s “The Obvious Aspects of Ritual.” American Anthropologist 101:98-112. ________________________________________________ 01/19
Power and Stereotyping (Ram) Required Readings: Bargh, J. A, Raymond, P, Pryor, J. B. & Strack, F. (1995). Attractiveness of the underling: An automatic power --> sex association and its consequences. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 68(5), 768-781.
Goodwin, S.,
Operario, D., & Fiske, S. (1998). Situational power and
interpersonal dominance facilitate bias and inequality. Journal of
Social Issues, 54(4), 677-698 Suggested Readings: Bargh, J. A., & Raymond, P. (1995). The naive misuse of power: Nonconscious sources of sexual harassment. Journal of Social Issues, 51, 85-96.
Chen, S., Lee-Chai, A., & Bargh,
J.A. (in press).
Relationship orientation as a moderator of the effects of social
power. Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology. ________________________________________________ 01/26 Implicit
Stereotyping (Justin) Required Readings/Activities: Play around at http://buster.cs.yale.edu/implicit/ -- do at least one IAT task Greenwald, A. G., Banaji, M. R. (1995). Implicit social cognition: Attitudes, self-esteem, and stereotypes. Psychological Review, 102(1), 4-27. Suggested Readings: Greenwald, A. G., McGhee, D. E., & Schwartz, J. L. K. (1998). Measuring individual differences in implicit cognition: The implicit association test. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 74, 1464-1480. Banaji, M. R., & Hardin, C. D. (1996). Automatic stereotyping. Psychological Science. 7(3), 136-141. ________________________________________________ 02/02
Ethnic groups, Race, Essentialism and the Psychology of Group
Cognition (Joe) Required Reading:
Gil-White,
Francisco. Are ethnic groups species to the human brain? Manuscript
Under Review.
Suggested Readings: R. McElreath, R. Boyd and P. J. Richerson. Shared Norms Can Lead to the Evolution of Ethnic Markers. http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/anthro/faculty/boyd/EthnicMarkers1.8.pdf Hirschfeld, Lawrence A. (1996) Race in the making: cognition, culture, and the child’s construction of human kinds. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Barth, Frederik (1969) Ethnic groups and boundaries. The social organization of culture difference. Published: Boston, Little, Brown. _______________________________________________ 02/09
Religion and Social Moraliy (Scott) Required Reading: Irons, Williams (1996) Morality, religion, and human nature. In W.M. Richardson & W. Wildman (eds.) Religion and science: History, method, dialogue. New York: Routledge. Strongly Recommended: Frank, Robert (1988) Passions within reason: The strategic role of the emotions. New York: W.W. Norton.. (Chapters 2-3, “The Altruism Paradox” and “A Theory of Moral Sentiments,” pp. 20-70) ________________________________________________ 02/16
Power - Intraspsychic
motivations (Ram) Required Reading: Winter, D. G. (2000). Power, sex, and violence: A psychological reconstruction of the 20th century and an intellectual agenda for political psychology. Political Psychology, 21(2), 383-404. Suggested Readings: Mclelland, D. (1975). Power: The inner experience. New York: Irvington. Nicholos, C. S. (1990). Power: A political history
of the twentieth century. New York: Oxford University Press. ________________________________________________ 02/23
Systems Justification Theory (Ram) Required Reading: Jost, J., Burgess, D. & Mosso, C. (in press) Conflicts of legitimation among self, group, and system: The integrative potential of system justification theory. Suggested Readings: Stoler, A. (1997). On political and psychological essentialism. Ethos, 25(1), 101-106. Jackman, M.R., & Senter, M.S. (1983). Different, therefore unequal: Beliefs about trait differences between groups of unequal status. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 2, 309-335. ________________________________________________ 03/09
Political Structures & Modes of Religiosity (Justin)
Required Readings: Whitehouse, H. (2000). Summary of the Modes of Religiosity Project and Empirical Predictions. Informational letter. Whitehouse, H. (1996) Rites of Terror: Emotion, Metaphor and Memory in Melanesian Initiation Cults. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2, 703-715. Suggested Reading: Whitehouse, H. (2000). Icons and Arguments: Divergent Modes of Religiosity. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ________________________________________________ 03/16
Do Cultural Groups Serve
Individuals, or Vice Versa? (Sober & Wilson required; Rappaport
optional - Scott) Required Readings: Sober, Elliot & David Sloan Wilson (1998) Unto others: The evolution and psychology of unselfish behavior. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Chapters 4-5, “Group Selection and Human Behavior” and “Human Groups as Adaptive Units,” pp. 132-194). Rappaport, Roy (1999) Ritual and religion in the making of humanity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Chapter 1, “The Ritual Form,” pp.23-68). ________________________________________________ 03/23
Social Dominance
Orientation (Ram) Required Reading: Pratto, F., Liu, J. H., Levin, S., Sidanius, J., Shih, M., Bachrach, H., & Hegarty, P. (2000). Social dominance orientation and the legitimization of inequality across cultures. Journal of Cross- Cultural Psychology, 31(3), 369-409. Suggested Readings: Sidanius, J., Levin, S., Liu, J., & Pratto, F. (2000). Social dominance orientation, anti egalitarianism and the political psychology of gender: An extension and cross-cultural replication. European Journal of Social Psychology, 30, 41-67. Jost, J., & Banaji, M. R. (1994). The role of stereotyping in system justification and the production of false consciousness. British Journal of Social Psychology, 33, 1-27. _______________________________________________ 03/30
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