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Psychology 465 — Spring, 2006—Assignment #2 Overview: Whichever one of the two tasks below that you pick, the 4 page paper will be due in class on Wednesday, April 19, 2006. In both cases, they are fairly simple analytic tasks, involving application of ideas you’ve been learning about in class and from your texts. Your Social Identity: For this task, you will pick 3 or 4 of your most important social identities and write about what they are. Talk about what supports the value of those social identities for you, and under what conditions you might feel threatened on the basis of each of those identities with perhaps even some responses you have employed to defend their value. (This task is not aimed at discussing aspects of your personal identity; rather you are to focus exclusively on a few important social identities of yours.) The distinction between personal and social identity will be discussed extensively in class on March 29. Hate on the Web: For this task, you will visit 4 different hate web sites and then write about what you observed. I am interested in having you think about the ways in which ideologies are employed to support different forms of hate. In what ways are the sites you examined similar to each other and in what ways are the ideologies that are presented across sites/groups different from each other. If you choose this option, below are a few hate web sites to start with (feel free to search the net and find your own—there are plenty out there!). In your paper though, tell me exactly which sites you examined (i.e., give http’s as references). / (Westboro Topeka Baptist Church) / (White Aryan Resistance - WAR) / / or / (Anti Semitic sites) .au/~national (Anti-Australian Aborigine) (Anti-Muslim) (Neo-Nazi – will also link you to World Church of the Creator www.WCOTC.com and ). , / /pages/dossier/id74/pg1 (Skinhead site) (links to Anti-Catholic and Anti-Islam site) /~mmcfarla/extreme.html (list of extremist groups) / (Women’s site