SOCIAL INFLUENCES: Status and power within groups

Question 1

Define: status

Answer 1

the importance or standing of an individual within a group, as perceived by the members of the group

Question 2

How can status affect behaviour?

Answer 2

Creating expectations of other peoples’ behaviour and how they relate to each other

Question 3

Define: power

Answer 3

an individual or group’s ability to control or influence the thoughts, feelings and behaviours of another person or group

Question 4

What is power determined by?

Answer 4

Status

Question 5

Does power occur in all human interactions?

Can it be used deliberately or undeliberately, for good and for bad?

Answer 5

yes, yes

Question 6

Define: role

Answer 6

Behaviour adopted to an individual or assigned to them that influences the way in which they unction or act in different situations or life in general

Question 7

Is a person’s role often linked to status and power?

Answer 7

Yes

Question 8

What are role expectations?

Answer 8

When members of a group expect a person to behave in accordance to their role, especially when their role carries power and status

Question 9

Real life example when power was being abused?

Answer 9

In Abu Chrain Prison
America and Britain invaded Iraq because they thought they had nuclear weapons
Created detention centre for Iraqi prisoners of war
in 2004, pictures released of extreme abuse - intimidation using dogs, pulling them with rope, standing in uncomfortable positions…