Lesson 12 - Social Influence Processes in Social Change

Question 1

Social change

Answer 1

Refers to change in a society
Examples: equal rights for homosexual couples, increases in recycling rates, smoking ban for public spaces, women gaining vote
Occurs when minority view challenges majority view and is eventually accepted by majority

Question 2

Governments/Lawmakers and Social Change

Answer 2

Social change is brought through power and process of obedience
Changing laws to legalise certain things makes people more accepting of those things
Changes in law make a behaviour a social normal allowing others to adopt

Question 3

Dictators and Social Change

Answer 3

Social change brought through obedience

Leads to groups of people changing their behaviour because of the fear of punishment/consequences of not obeying