SOCPSY 2YY3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Social Forces

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

Document Summary

We often feel society through interpersonal interaction and communication with the people around us". Can also be the organizations we interact with closely. Found that living in a more densely populated area is more associated with higher self efficacy. Crime rate in neighbourhood you live in has lower self efficacy. Develop a psychologically realistic" model of the actor. Involved understanding how experiences that people have with the components of social structure are processes, remembered, and made meaningful on a psychological level. Individual interpretations matter; understanding how structures influence perspective. 2 classic studies in social structure and personality. Interested in convergence theory (coming together/converging on something) As countries industrialize values begin to converge, tend to have a similar mindset influenced by economic system. This study was very structured (others had more psychoanalytic approach) Able to develop several structures for childhood experiences. Assumes all societies will move in linear formations from any other type of organization towards industrialization.