This document provides directions for a 2-4 page social psychology paper in APA format responding to three questions. The first question asks about other stigmatized groups that establish decency through distancing and how this reproduces inequality. The second examines the movie "The Blind Side" and asks about the emotions it evokes, racial undertones, and portrayals designed to elicit emotional responses. The third prompts generating a list of important social identities, analyzing benefits and potential losses from no longer claiming the most important identity, and how repugnant behaviors may be reconciled with identity through vocabularies of motive.

1. So 338 – social psychology paper (2-4 pages, apa format, 3 or more
DirectionsPlease respond to all of the questions in paragraph form with the question
numbers labeled. You should incorporate concepts from the readings into your answers and
cite the readings as needed. The paper should be 2-4 pages.1. Mobile home residents are
not the only stigmatized group who establish their decency by distancing themselves from
others.· Who else does this?· How do they do it?· Why do they do this rather than
approaching others with empathy?· How does this approach reproduce
inequality?2. Watch the trailer and read the description of “The Blind Side,” the
dramatization of football player Michael Oher’s success, which earned over $255 million at
the box office and earned Sandra Bullock an Oscar for Best Leading Actress (The Blind Side
– Trailer (Links to an external site.)and (Links to an external site.)IMDb- The Blind Side
Plot Summary (Links to an external site.)).· What emotions dominated while you
watched?· What strategies did the director and actors use to conjure those different
feelings?· Now consider the racial undertones of the movie or read some racial critiques-
The Blind Side: What Would Black People Do Without Nice White Folks? (Links to an
external site.)· How do you think most white individuals feel when watching this
movie?· What about African Americans?· To what extent are these portrayals conscious on
the part of the movie makers?· Does thinking about the racial content change your
emotional experience? Why or why not?· Where else do we see racial portrayals that are
designed to evoke particular emotional responses?· Read the National Association of Black
Social Workers’- Transracial Adoption Statement. (Links to an external site.)What is their
position? Why?3. Generate a list of the social identities most important to you. Then
organize the list according to their salience to you and label each section of the
chart.· Looking at the list, which social identity is most important to you?· What kinds of
benefits do you get from this identity? If you suddenly could no longer claim this identity,
how would you feel?· What relationships and resources would you lose? Would you lose
other social benefits?· Think of a behavior or two that is repugnant to people within that
group. What social conditions could compel you to act that way? Do you know people who
have engaged in that behavior?· How did they reconcile the conflict between their identity
and their actions?· What sort of vocabularies of motive did they—or could you—use to
convince themselves and others to act in that way?