SOC 2109 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Social Forces, Pluralistic Ignorance, Whirr

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2109
• Professor: Sam Alvaro

Document Summary

Soc 2109 (fall 2018), attitudes, scarcity, authority, gender, behavior. Ssp: social structure, attitudes, and behaviors: from a structural pov, our attitudes reflect our position in society, attitudes vary based on our social status (i. e. race, class, and gender, attitudes are also affected by agents of socialization. Consistency: our nearly obsessive desire to be (and to appear) consistent w/ what we have already done, consistency is valued and has been associated w/ personal and intellectual strength. Commitment: produces the click that activates the whirr of our consistency tapes. 4: since you just state you were well, you will feel the need to be consistent and help those who aren"t as well off as you, commitment strategies that start small and build can build a. Authority: we have a deep-seated sense of duty to authority, tests demonstrate that adults will do extreme things when instructed to do so by an authority figure, titles, uniforms, clothes, trappings of status.