ANTA01H3 Lecture Notes - Groupthink, Harold Garfinkel, Collectivism
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Canada is an individualistic society, and therefore conformity suggests something negative. Japanese have had to relinquish some claims for personal space and rely on predictable behaviour (due to conformity) to maintain social harmony and order. Japan is changing, allowing for more individuals to express their identity. Stanley milgram"s subway experiments: breaching social norms subways are ideal places to observe social interaction, as people of all classes, ethnicities, and religions are together without speaking. Milgarm created a breaching experiment typically, when you"re on a subway, you give up your seat to someone weak, pregnant, disabled, elderly. Milgram"s study involved using his students as participants, and having them give up their seats to someone who was able to stand. Milgram had his students enter in pairs one would observe, while the other asked if they could have a person"s seat results showed a majority of people gave up their seats to milgram"s able students.
