SI: Social Change Flashcards
What is social change?
When society adopts a new belief or way of behaving which then becomes widely accepted as the norm
Examples of positive social change
Suffragette movement
Recycling
Smoking viewed poorly
Civil rights movement
Body positivity
Examples of negative social change
Phone addiction
Fascism, rise of Nazi’s
Segregation
Consumerism, replacing not repairing
Misperception and social norm interventions
Gap between a perceived norm and an actual norm
Correcting this misperception- social norm interventions
Use perception correcting strategies to communicate actual norm
Process of social change
⭐️Drawing attention to an issue
⭐️Cognitive conflict (between existing status quo and new norm proposed by the minority)
⭐️Consistently of position
⭐️Augmentation principle
⭐️Snowball effect
Social crytomnesia
People have a memory that change has occurred but don’t remember how it happened
