PSYC 215 Lecture : social psyc class notes
10 Dec 2011
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Social psychology is what those who call themselves social psychologists choose to study. : yet most fields of study can be defined in this way. What makes it different from sociology and anthropology: psychology is in science. Focus is more on the individual generally. E. g. migration patters, aggregate statistics, social class issues, economic issues: anthropology. Focus is on an entire culture or subculture, perhaps bigger than social psychology which focuses on an individual in a social context. Their methodologies are opposite to what they"re focusing on: one or two people from a culture are studied in depth, which are an informant representative of a culture. The weirdo of the village is the one that stepped forward! E. g. guy who went to australia and made a report, then went back to the village. It used to be that you needed certain science prerequisites to get into psychology. There are prereq, then requirements which tell you the core of the discipline.
