SOCI 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Social Movement, Social Psychology, Milgram Experiment
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Socialization through direct messages and representations of the world. Women as objects and men as subjects. Testing if movies portray women as objects rather than subjects. Thinking about ourselves in relation to others. Roles: the activities and duties expected from you in a certain position. (role that you play) Status: position in a hierarchy or social structure. (position you occupy) Status you can acquire through capacities or effort. Ex: student : department chair > prof > student >non student. Role: student has to study, go to class, etc . Some of the statuses we have conflict with or roles. There are many examples of social influence shaping our behaviour. Our tendency to conform to social pressure is surprisingly powerful. People can be induced into choices that they know are wrong. Social psychological experiments conducted by solonmon asch in the. Looked at group pressure on the minds of the individuals. Participants were told that the study was on visual perception.
