SOCPSY 1Z03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Symbolic Interactionism, George Herbert Mead, Norm (Social)
20 Sep 2016
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Friday, september 9, 2016: core concerns of social psychology, primary concern: human behaviour in a social context. The impact that one individual has on another. The impact that a group has on its individual members. The impact that individual members have on the groups to which they belong. The impact that one group has on another group. And social categories (women, latino, working class etc. : outcomes of socialization vary i. e language skills, political, religious. Social psychologists: both contributed to social psychological knowledge, the more sociological side uses surveys, experiments and observational techniques to gather data, more interested in relationship between individuals and the groups i. e socialization, conformity, deviance etc. Friday, september 9, 2016: the more psychological side rely heavily on laboratory experimental methodology, less likely to use observational methods, primary concern is how social stimuli (other peoples) affects an individual"s behaviour and internal states. I. e self, person perception and attribution, attitudes etc.
