PSY220H1 Lecture 1: Introduction to Social Psychology
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Focused on the effects of race on the broader perspective. Even broader view, moving from group level to cultural level. Looks at the refugee crisis from the perspective of cultures in conflict with each other. Focused on things that are abnormal; deviations from the norm. Focused on abnormalities during child development such as ptsd, etc. Deals with issues of power and the distribution of powers and resources; government and political behavior. Whether to leave your home country and go to a new place to obtain refugee status, all the factors that go into making the decision. Consequences of identifying as a refugee; stigma. First to explicitly delineate the domain of social psychology as the experimental study of social behavior, defined as behavior in which the responses either serve as social stimuli or are evoked by social stimuli . Kurt lewin (another founder of social psychology)
