SOCPSY 2YY3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Structural Level, Collectivism, Social Forces

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Social Psychology
• Course: SOCPSY 2YY3
• Professor: Kathleen Steeves

Document Summary

Social structure and personality theory (ssp) & melvin kohn reading: kohn (1989) believes that social psychology tends to be too micro in focus and needs more focus on. Social psych too concerned with micro social structures. Individuals influenced by all kinds of realities: not enough focus on social structures, not all realities are interpersonal. Ssp: macro social phenomena: structural influence on the outside, macro-social phenomenon -> influential mechanisms -> individual beliefs/behaviors, what"s going on on top at a structural level, concerned with material realities rather than ideas (more materialistic than idealistic) Starts on the outside of the circle and moves in. Feel the effects through the organizations we participate in organizations close to them: good portion from society"s impact comes from these institutions like family. Strengths: sociological/structural approach, emphasis on empirical analysis with extensive survey research, captured components principle (several links in the chain; economy -> work.