In-group vs. Out-group

In the past week of Sociology we talked about what it meant to be a part of an "In" group and what it meant to be a part of an "Out" group. When we walked into class we (the students) were separated into two groups. One wearing blue jeans and the other group was for non-blue jeans. I was part of the group not wearing blue jeans and my group had to make reasons as to why we are not wearing blue jeans. All the reasons we came up with were all jokes and not meant to be taken seriously but the point of the activity was to see how easy it is to judge people who are not part of your "group".

The fact that this was going on in the past until today is shocking. It doesn't just have to do with jeans it could be the color our skin or certain people we hang out with that we get identified with. If you look throughout your whole day you can see that you interact with many different groups. The people on the outside the "Out-group" may judge us based on the different groups we go through daily. I know everyone says I don't like to judge people but we all do it because that is the society we live in. The issue we need to focus on is realizing how we can break away from this and differentiate ourselves and try not to categorize or stereotype people.