SOCPSY 1Z03 Study Guide - Winter 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes -
12 Oct 2018
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Fall 2018
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Midterm Exam- 30% (In Class)
Assignment- 25%
Final Exam- 35%
Tutorial- 10%
January 9th
What is Social Psychology
Social Psychology- the merging of two disciplines in social sciences. Bridges the interests of
psychology and sociology.
• the systematic study of the nature and causes of human social behaviour
• interested in what people do and why they do it, and develop theories to understand.
Core Concerns
• the impact one individual has on another
• through implicit and explicit
• explicit impact: convincing a friend to start to vote
• the impact that a group has on its individual members
• establishment of roles (explicit) and norms (implicit)
• norms are the informal rules that govern our behaviour
• groups impact our beliefs and behaviours
• the impact that individual members have on the groups they belong to
• seen when big social change occurs, ex. LGBTQ community change
• each individual effects group work for example
• the impact that one group has on another group
• intergroup conflict
• ex. pro trump and anti trump
• differences in beliefs
• abortion debate
• groups conflict in high school
• the impact of social context and social structure on groups and individuals
• the impact society has on us, and how it affects us
• the individual affects society and society affects the individual
• our social situations dictate our
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Theoretical Perspectives
Symbolic Interactionism
• developed by Charles Horton Cooley and George Herbert Mead.
• Symbolic Interactionism was coined by Herbert Blumer
• understand the world as the products of the everyday interactions of people
• Blumers Symbolic Interactionism Premises
• people act towards things based on the meaning those things have for them
• these meaning are derived through social interaction and are not inherent
• meanings can be modified and changed through social interaction
• Situated Identity
• how we see ourselves in related to others in a given social situation
• Role-Taking
• when we imagine ourselves in the role of the person we are interacting with
• The Looking-Glass Self
• Cooley
• the self as a social object
• sense of self developed through social interaction
• how we piercing how others perceive us
• Three Elements
• imagine how we appear to others
• imagine how other persons reaction to our appearance
• respond with some sort of feeling (shame, pride, guilt, happiness)
• Significant Others
• people who control important rewards or who occupy central positions in groups to
which the individual belongs
• Reflexive Self
• individual who can engage in self-perception, self-evaluation, and self-control just as
they might perceive, evaluate, and control others. ability to take the role of both subject
and object.
• Limitations
• concerns with the balance between rationality and emotion
• concern with overemphasis rational and self-consciousness thought.
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