SOCPSY 2YY3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Gang Of Youths

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Social Psychology
• Course: SOCPSY 2YY3
• Professor: Kathleen Steeves

Document Summary

Connections btwn society and individual personalities (psychological aspects that influence behaviours and outcomes in society) The relationship btwn the macro phenomenon and a person"s individual beliefs and behaviours. The diff outcomes of cultures across nations or btwn countries. Differs in the commitment to understand the psychological components of individuals. The persisting patterns of behaviour and interaction btwn people or social conditions in a social system. Enduring, stable, guideline for behaviour and allows for human behaviour to be predictable. The psychological attributes of an indv"l like values, attitudes, affect, character, or beliefs. A set of cognitive and evaluative beliefs about what is or ought tot be that are shared by members of a social system and transmitted to new members. More psychologically oriented than si; more structured; si = the agency of an individual vs. ssp how society influences the indv"l; both say that we internalize things from society.