SOC 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 41: Collective Behavior, Social Movement, Mcdonaldization

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1200
• Professor: Susan Miller

Document Summary

Recruited students to participate in visual perception study . Told 7/8 members in each group to purposely answer incorrectly . Many of the left-out students conformed and answered incorrectly to fit in . Assigned a member to (cid:498)student(cid:499) and one to (cid:498)teacher(cid:499) (cid:498)students(cid:499) were all accomplices . Recruits listened to fake authority figures without questioning harm of shock . Asked soldiers to rate their own chance of promotion in their unit . Soldiers in units with low promotion rates were more optimistic . Large groups turn inward, more likely to maintain relationships exclusively among themselves (institutional completeness) . Heterogeneous groups turn outward, more internally diverse a group is, more likely members are to interact with outsiders . Physical boundaries create social boundaries members are less likely to interact with other people to the extent that the social group is physically segregated from others . Control human being is the least reliable element .