Given the Increasing Popularity of Snowboarding as an International Sport

question 33

Multiple Choice

Given the increasing popularity of snowboarding as an international sport, an energy drink company sponsors four new snowboarders and terminates contracts with seven skiers.As a result, the old skiers resent the new snowboarders and post negative comments about them online.______________ best explains this intergroup conflict.

• A)Social identity theory
• B)Social dominance theory
• C)Group positon theory
• D)None of the above

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