SOCL 3601 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Social Learning Theory, Behaviorism, Social Change
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Psyc developed as a discipline in the early 1800"s. But we soon figured out that you need to know more than what is going on in peoples head in order to understand behavior (so lets develop another field) Cognitive abilities (the ability to think things out advanced: we use our cognitive abilities through social interactions. There is no room for it all in behaviorism alone: for sociologists, this falls way short of an adequate explanation of what people do and why they do it. Rational choice theory and exchange theory : w can weigh the expected benefits of any particular behavior and we can way that against the costs and the risks of engaging in the behavior. If the benefits outweigh the costs, we will engage in the behavior (more than likely) Some rewards are more important than others (we all have different dislikes and preferences) in certain circumstances.
