1.) Demonstrate why groups are so vital to society and to your own life. Provide at least two specific examples of the roles groups play in your life and explain in detail. 2.) How might in-group vs. out-group mentalities contribute to racism and xenophobia? Explain the role culture, social class and social status play in establishing in and out group mentality?
3.) Connect the dangers of in-group and out-group consequences to the theories of prejudice discussed in Chapter 12.
4.) What is the influence of dominant groups on bureaucratic policy? How might some bureaucratic policies affect minoritized groups (such as racial, ethnic, class, and/or gender minority groups) differently from dominant groups?

Horton automatics and the industrial division of the communications workers of america, the union that represented horton’s workers, negotiated a collective bargaining agreement. if an employee’s discharge for a workplace-rule violation was submitted to arbitration, the agreement limited the arbitrator to determining whether the rule was reasonable and whether the employee had violated it. when horton discharged employee ruben de la garza, the union appealed to arbitration. the arbitrator found that de la garza had violated a reasonable safety rule, but “was not totally convinced” that horton should have treated the violation more seriously than other rule violations. the arbitrator ordered de la garza reinstated. can a court set aside this order