The Apex Athletics club and the Summit Harriers club have shared a local municipal athletics track harmoniously for over a decade. Recently, the local authority announced that due to severe budget constraints, the track will be leased exclusively to only one of the clubs, meaning the other club will be evicted. Within days of this announcement, members of both clubs began defacing each other's training equipment, locking each other out of the shared changing rooms, and trading verbal abuse during training sessions.
Using your knowledge of Social Psychology, explain:
one strength of Realistic Conflict Theory as an explanation of the behaviour of the athletic club members.
one weakness of Realistic Conflict Theory as an explanation of the behaviour of the athletic club members.
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.