NETWORKS I Gladwell (1999). Six Degrees of Lois Weisberg Lois Weisberg has an extraordinary ability to meet people (and making new friends) and connect them each other. She is the Commissioner of Cultural Affairs for the City of Chicago and during her entire life she has hang out and built relationships with people from different backgrounds and jobs: musicians‚ doctors‚ lawyers‚ politicians‚ environmentalists and so on. Without any doubt‚ Lois is capable to reach someone outside her “world”
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Article Critique The main points discussed are the reason behind good people doing bad things‚ dehumanization‚ heroes and the effect of institutional power. The author was arguing that a person cannot quite literally be sweet‚ if they are surrounded by a sour environment. The strengths possessed in this article were that dehumanization is a very real notion as well as the fact that people change with the induction of anonymity. The weakness that is portrayed is that there are heroes around when
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The Stanford Prison Experiment – Phillip Zimbardo Introduction Headed by Phillip Zimbardo‚ the Stanford Prison Experiment was designed with the aim of investigating how readily people would behave and react to the roles given to them within a simulated prison. The experiment showed that the social expectations that people have of specific social situations can direct and strongly influence behaviour. The concepts evident in the Stanford Prison Experiment include social influence‚ and within that
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Identification of Dilemma George is a college student working a summer job on the overnight shift in the production of milkshake mix at Eastern Dairy. The job is highly important to him because he is making great money in comparison to previous experiences and he is intending to save the money to help cover expenses once he and his significant other‚ Cathy‚ get married and he returns to school. That said‚ the job is not one he intends to keep long-term as he plans to only stay through the summer
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Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment Aim: To test whether a person is predisposed to certain behaviour or whether the situation can affect their actions. Method: Zimbardo adapted the basement of Stanford University into a fake‚ but realistic prison‚ to replicate the psychological experience of imprisonment and deindividuation. Recruiting 25 emotionally stable‚ healthy‚ volunteers who were randomly assigned the role of prisoner or guard‚ expected to then act out their roles in a prison setting
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occur in direct response to overt social forces (Cialdini and Goldstein‚ 2004). Some of the most memorable and influential studies in the field of psychology depict individuals near hysteria at the sight of an individual in a lab coat as shown by Milgrams (1974) work on obedience and authority (Cialdini and Goldstein‚ 2004). This is also depicted in Asch’s (1956) line-judgement conformity experiments where individuals were observed to see if they would pit their own knowledge of correct response against
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The myth of private sector superiority has been a deliberation of ample subjects‚ privatized prisons specifically‚ publicized and sponsored as low cost and efficient with room for corporate profits‚ further analysis indicates a deeper underlying problem an issue barred behind the cold steel gateways‚ roaming through the gaol corridors‚ a corporeal beast living beyond the superficial‚ infesting and undermining the integrity and intellectual origins of the Department of Justice and their duty for “fair
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Module 1 Doing Social Psychology blz. 3 t/m 14 Social psychology The scientific study of how people think about‚ influence‚ and relate to one another. Forming and testing theories Theory An integrated set of principles that explain and predict observed events. Hypothesis A testable proposition that describes a relationship that might exist between events. Correlational research: detecting natural associations Correlational research The study of the naturally
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Evaluating Essay The two articles “Student Grades and Average Ratings of Instructional Quality: The Need for Adjustment” and “What if Milgram Controlled Student Grades? A Simple Game for Teaching the Concept of Authority” that we had to read and annotate I found very interesting. The game they played and the statistics they showed in the two articles were so true. You see these things happening all the time through school‚ at home‚ and even at a work place. At school it tends to be some ridiculous
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Confounding variables- work their way into an experiment which may screw it up without us being accountable for them Diffusion: The spread of a cultural trait from one society to another through social contact Acculturation: The process of contact‚ exposure‚ and exchange of ideas between different cultures that results in adaptations and changes to both groups Wednesday September 5‚ 2012 Strip-Search Case Closed? Summary: An 18 year old girl with worked at McDonalds was forced to strip
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