SOCPSY 2YY3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Social Comparison Theory, Physical Attractiveness, Procedural Justice
10 Oct 2016
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Smith-lovin and molm identi ed a third face of sociological social psychology: the group processes perspective. Focus: processes that emerge in group and group contexts. For example, status, power, justice and legitimacy. They may ask how does a hierarchy emerge in the rst place. Roots: social exchange theory (homans, blau); bales experiments; simmel"s social forms . Strengths: pays attention to how people are shaped and created by society but also how individuals shape and create society, use experience to test their hypothesis which leads to high internal validity. Homans: all social behaviour can be explained by a set of general propositions, expressed as a mathematical formula. For example, rationalist proposition: the frequency with which a person engages in an action depends on the value of the outcome to his or her and the probability that the action will lead to the outcome (a= p*v) Goal: mathematical equations could explain social behaviour.
