SOCIOL 2D06 : fall-winter 2010-2011
Document Summary
Social psychology: the scientific study of the relationship between individuals and society. Allport: social psychology is the attempt to understand and explain how the thought, feeling and behaviour of individuals are influenced by the actual imaged or implied presence of others. Psychological social psychology: studies of conformity and obedience. Humans are powerfully impacted by their environment psychologists more concerned with process rather than environment. The individual is the main unit of analysis. Sociological social psychology: emphasize the impact of societal forces in addition to immediate social context on individual"s lives. Study immediate social context that people live in as well as a society as a whole. Emphasis is on understanding social, cultural and historical context of human experience. Auguste compte scientific method to social world. 1879: wundt set up worlds 1st experimental psyc laboratory. 1897: 1st soc psyc experiment triplett. Theories: general explanation of the relationships among a set of variables; to explain what they observe.