social explanation Flashcards
anti social
acting in a way that is likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress to people not of same household
labelling
broad terms are used to describe a group of people. Happens when a group see another as inferior which creates majority and minority groups
- have negative connotations and derive from stereotypes
self-fulfilling prophecy
false definition of the situation evoking a new behaviour, which makes originally false conception come true.
we then internalise labels associated with us
social learning theory
acquiring behaviour by observing and imitating others
evaluation
- SE from Jahoda 1954
- SE from Madon et al 2004
- ethical issues so can’t be tested/ proven
- cannot accept a causal link as other variables may influence behaviour
- CE from meta analysis on SLT and aggression = 0.19 which is a weak correlation coefficient so results not significant and there are other influences
individual differences
- SFP, some do not live up to expectations as they usually have high self-esteem, greater autonomy and less regard for opinion
- social explanations can explain development
Jahoda
1954
- Ashanti people from Ghana name boys depending on the day they were born
mondays = quiet boys
wednesday = aggressive and short tempered
- looking at 5 year records
22% violent offences committed by wednesday boys
6.9% monday
- suggests that cultural expectations and labels led to different treatment and they conformed to labels
madon et al
2004
- whether parents expectations about childs alcohol use had any self-fulfilling effect on childrens future drinking behaviour
- found a positive correlation between parents who overestimated childs alcohol use and actual alcohol use a year later. If both parents expected child was more likely