Presented By: Research Center for Group Dynamics (RCGD)
RCGD Fall Seminar Series: The Social Psychology of Systemic Racism (Nick Camp)
Institutional Interactions: What everyday encounters reveal about the psychology of policing and being policed
The first seminar in the series will be given by series organizer Nick Camp.
Racial disparities in policing are profound and accompanied by equally persistent gaps in trust. Analyses of these and other inequities are often bifurcated between institutional and individual levels of analysis. In this talk, Nick Camp describes how everyday contacts between the public and doctors, teachers, or police officers—institutional interactions—bridge these levels. Organizations direct and coordinate these agents' individual discretion; at the same time, individual agents relate to the public in ways institutions themselves cannot. The dual nature of these encounters links individual and dyadic processes to organizational and institutional ones. Using police stops as a paradigmatic example, Nick Camp illustrates how institutional interactions contribute to racial gaps in police‐community trust, how they can be used as a platform for changing the relationship between law enforcement and the public, and how they can inform our understanding of inequality in other settings.
Talks in this series will be held Mondays from 3:30 to 5, starting Sept. 16.
In person: ISR Thompson 1430
As permissions allow, seminars are later posted to our YouTube playlist.
Group Dynamics Seminar Series
The Group Dynamics Seminar series is considered one of the longest running seminar series in the social sciences. It has been running uninterruptedly since it was founded by Kurt Lewin in the 1920’s in Berlin. A very important feature of this seminar today is its interdisciplinary nature. Recent seminars have included themes such as political polarization, cultural psychology, and evolution & human behavior.
What are the points of connection between structures and individuals when we think about bias? In the Fall 2024 RCGD Seminar Series “The Social Psychology of Systemic Racism,” an all-star lineup of behavioral and political psychologists will define what, in their words, makes systemic racism systemic, and how extra-individual levels of analysis could be incorporated in social psychological theories and methods.
Racial disparities in policing are profound and accompanied by equally persistent gaps in trust. Analyses of these and other inequities are often bifurcated between institutional and individual levels of analysis. In this talk, Nick Camp describes how everyday contacts between the public and doctors, teachers, or police officers—institutional interactions—bridge these levels. Organizations direct and coordinate these agents' individual discretion; at the same time, individual agents relate to the public in ways institutions themselves cannot. The dual nature of these encounters links individual and dyadic processes to organizational and institutional ones. Using police stops as a paradigmatic example, Nick Camp illustrates how institutional interactions contribute to racial gaps in police‐community trust, how they can be used as a platform for changing the relationship between law enforcement and the public, and how they can inform our understanding of inequality in other settings.
Talks in this series will be held Mondays from 3:30 to 5, starting Sept. 16.
In person: ISR Thompson 1430
As permissions allow, seminars are later posted to our YouTube playlist.
Group Dynamics Seminar Series
The Group Dynamics Seminar series is considered one of the longest running seminar series in the social sciences. It has been running uninterruptedly since it was founded by Kurt Lewin in the 1920’s in Berlin. A very important feature of this seminar today is its interdisciplinary nature. Recent seminars have included themes such as political polarization, cultural psychology, and evolution & human behavior.
What are the points of connection between structures and individuals when we think about bias? In the Fall 2024 RCGD Seminar Series “The Social Psychology of Systemic Racism,” an all-star lineup of behavioral and political psychologists will define what, in their words, makes systemic racism systemic, and how extra-individual levels of analysis could be incorporated in social psychological theories and methods.
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