SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Social Capital, Working Poor, Upper Class
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From last week"s" lecture on social groups, networks, organizations, shaping our actions: all around and implicit such as norms, values, socialization. Conformity: top down and explicit such as. They want to fit in with the group. They believe the group is better informed than they are. The individual who is being recruited: one true participant the rest are confederates. The actual participant is the 5th of 6th respondent. By the time you get to the actual participant does he say what he truly sees with his eyes. Of all of us will disregard our own perception and follow the right the answers of others. People want to fit in or did not want to stick out/having to explain why they think differently. Groups not only shape our actions through those processes of socialization and social interaction. Groups also share our sense of self, our sense of belonging, our sense of identity.
