8) Resistance to social roles

Question 1

What are the 2 explanations to resisting SI

Answer 1

• Social support
• Locus of control

Question 2

What is social support & examples

Answer 2

• Where other people resist conforming
• dissenter will act as a model, and breaks unanimity
• Milgram showed a 55% decrease in conformity (65% to 10%) when there was a dissenting peer

Question 3

What is LOC

Answer 3

• Rotter defined both Internal loc and external loc
• internal loc, believe that most things that happen are within control, external loc, out of their control things happen by chance
• Scale to Loc
• Internal Loc, more likely to resist pressure to conform, greater resistance to SI

Question 4

EV - Evidence for role of support

Answer 4

• Pregnant women were told to stop smoking and were supported by an older ‘buddy;
• less likely to smoke compared to a control group without a buddy
• real world application of social support and it can help deliver meaningful change

Question 5

EV - evidence for dissenting peer

Answer 5

• Gamson gave oil companies orders
• 29/33 rebelled going against orders
• supporters can undermine legitimacy of authority

Question 6

EV - research supports for Loc

Answer 6

• Holland repeated milgram’s study, whether ps were internal or external
• 37% of internals did not continue, compared to the 23% of externals
• increasing validity of loc

Question 7

EV - Not all research supports Loc

Answer 7

• Psychologist analysed data from American Loc studies over 40 years
• People had become more independent but with this also more external
• surprising finding as we would expect people to become more internal with independence
• not a valid explanation to resistance of social roles