an diversity are and important component of social attraction.” This study indicated that certain ethnic groups are more attractive than others, and in order for an in-group member to relate to an out-group member as a potential friend, the out-group member had to be more similar to the participant than a member of the participants own group did. In my opinion, the study seemed it was going to be off for the simple fact of race, whether minor or major. The groups with the non-white members would probably be most unfavorable in my view, because of stereotypes dealing with their culture, and social class. In society, Haitians and Arabs are apart of a lower class system and are located in third world countries. The Eastern Europeans and their countries are a bit more developed, so they would be deemed as more civilized in the means of stereotyping, no matter how similar or dissimilar they are to the French Canadians. Trying to compare social groups to the three theoretical perspectives is the hardest part of the paper. With the functionalist perspective, groups bind people together. Every member of that group must share a working knowledge of the same aspects of life. With the conflict theory perspective, a societies groups are controlled by an high society that manipulates them in order to maintain its own position of wealth and power. With the symbolic interactionist see how groups perceive different things for example ideas and how it would affect their behavior....
