Social Psychology (PSY403) VU Lesson 01 INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY Aims Introduction of social psychology is a very important discipline of psychology. Objectives 1. Defining social psychology. 2. Introduce main content and subject matter of social psychology in relations to different questions of interest in this discipline. General Introduction of the Course Social psychology is the scientific study of how people think‚ influence‚ and relate to one another. It is a comparatively
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QUESTION : social class plays an important role in marketing. Social class is a status hierarchy in which individuals and groups are classified on the basis of esteem and prestige acquired through economic success and accumulation of wealth. The social class in today’s society is divided into lower class‚ working class‚ lower middle class‚ middle class‚ upper middle class and capitalist class. The classes are categorized based on income and wealth. The social class in Malaysia is somewhat similar
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SOCIAL CLASS STRATIFICATION WHAT IS SOCIAL STRATIFICATION: Social stratification refers to the division of a society into layers (or strata) whose occupants have unequal access to social opportunities and rewards. People in the top strata enjoy power‚ prosperity‚ and prestige that are not available to other members of society; people in the bottom strata endure penalties that other members of society escape. In a stratified society‚ inequality is part of the social structure and passes from one
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Social psychology is a discipline that uses scientific methods to understand and explain how the thought‚ feeling and behavior of individuals are influenced by the actual‚ imagined or implied presence of other human. Social psychology looks at a wide range of social topics‚ including group behavior‚ social perception‚ leadership‚ nonverbal behavior‚ conformity‚ aggression and prejudice. While Plato referred to the idea of the "crowd mind" and concepts such as social loafing and social facilitation
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Abstract Social Darwinism is a political theory that emphasizes struggle and competition‚ and claims that human racial stock improves by allowing ruthless and unrestrained competition in the economic realm. Social Darwinism apples the concepts of biological evolution to social and moral development by stating that it is social evolution through the "survival of the fittest" in a struggle for an existence in which the strong prevail and the weak are defeated. Currently‚ we use the terms of Darwinism
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WHAT IS SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP? * Creating business models revolving around low-cost products and services * Social entrepreneurship is the process of bringing about social change on a major scale * Social enterprises can be structured as a for-profit or non-profit HISTORY OF SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP * The Social Enterprise movement first emerged in 1840s * In Rochdale‚ a workers’ co-operative was set up to provide high quality affordable food in response to factory conditions
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Social Issues A social issue (also called a social problem or a social ill) is an issue that relates to society’s perception of people’s personal lives. an issue that negatively affects a person’s state of being in a society. a condition that at least some people in a community view as being undesirable. common to all societies‚ and they often are latent results from efforts to deal with certain social situations. Social Problems in the Philippines Poverty Unemployment Corruption Overpopulation
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Tyra Gilliard ENG 101 Professor Bolton March 11‚ 2013 Society and Social Networks Hal Niedzviecki’s essay‚ “Facebook in a Crowd‚” emphasizes the difference between acquiring social network friends and acquiring real friends. When Niedzviecki logged on to Facebook‚ he realized he was close to having 700 online “friends” (958). But being that he didn’t know them personally like he knew his previous friends‚ he decided to have a Facebook party. After tabulating the responses‚ 15 people said they
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Social Media: A Way to Stay Connected There are many forms of social media; blogging‚ social-networking and content community’s websites; just to name a few. These web-sites are usually known to people as MySpace‚ Facebook‚ and Oovoo. Social media is a way for people to communicate with each other through internet or mobile technologies. Social media allows an individual to meet new people‚ share formal or personal information with one another and gives opportunities to families to reconnect with
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SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY MIDTERM Q: Discuss why the scientific method provides a better guide to human behavior than common sense does. When discussing the scientific method and common sense as it regards to social psychology‚ one must understand what the scientific method and common sense are. A: The scientific method is a systematic method used to observe variables in an attempt to answer some inquiry‚ in this case reasons for certain human behaviors. Common sense‚ on the other hand‚ is not
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