SOCI 3660 Lecture 9: What is Social Psychology? SEPT 27
28 Feb 2018
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Study of society and how people interact in it. The person: and the traits she or he has developed(viewed as the most important cause of human behaviour) Traits of individual and some weight to the social situation. Two social psychologies: psychological social psychology (merging traits, attitudes and social-situational factors; Experiments & surgery; determinist: search for causes) example: aschs conformity experiment- group pressure. Independent: casual variable/causes: sociological social psychology. Interpretivist: how people give meaning to themselves, their words and others. Gender: a dusty home as a character signi ier. Work: dirty work, dirty jobs and social class. Political economy: dust bowls and the development of farming communities. This article talks about the school bus system in toronto and how its been chaos since school began. The bus driver is nding it very distracting driving a bus lled with st ghting 11 year olds and screaming 4 year olds who wont say in their seats.
