A local council has allocated a single community grant of £10,000, which can only be awarded to either the local youth football club or the senior citizens' choir. Members of both groups have started posting hostile and derogatory comments about each other online, with each claiming their own group is more deserving of the funding to stay afloat.
Using realistic conflict theory, explain the prejudice and hostility between the members of the football club and the choir.
171 exam-style questions on Edexcel A Level Psychology Content, covering Theories of obedience, Research into obedience (Milgram variations), Factors affecting obedience and dissent, Explanations and research into prejudice, Factors affecting prejudice, Individual differences in obedience/prejudice, and Developmental psychology in obedience/prejudice. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.