social - Key question, how can knowledge of social psychology be used to reduce prejudice in situations such as crowd behaviour and rioting?
Heysel Stadium disaster -Social impact theory (latane)
officers made 34 arrests in this riot, the reason why the criminals and hooliganism let the police arrest them was due to... uniform, legitimate authority was close to them and able to talk or arrest them face to face, immediacy had strengths in numbers, lots of police man, had power to punish by the law
football hooliganism- Heysel Stadium disaster facts
Liverpool vs. Juventus 1985 in the European final in Belgium. Liverpool fans pushed over a neutral wall to get towards Juventus fans, causing the wall to fall and killing mainly 39 Juventus fans , 600 injured. 34 were arrested
Heysel Stadium disaster- agency theory (milgram)
police arrested 34 people and was allowed to do so by the victims due to legitimate authority and had power to punish
Heysel Stadium disaster- social identity theory (turner and tajfel)
riots were caused due to the Liverpool fans creating a social categorisation and all Juventus fans are the out groups members. they also created social identification adopting behaviours all all fans causing riots and joining in due to their group doing this. they also created social companion by saying that they are better than the other team boosting their self esteem.
Heysel Stadium disaster- realistic conflict theory (sheriff)
there was negative interdepence competition and increase prejudice to the other team due to their only being one winner in the European final. in football there is no way to add a superordinate goal to reduce prejudice and conflict between the two teams.