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self-awareness

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awareness of one’s self

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personal identity

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one’s own sense of personal attributes

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self-verification theory

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individuals want to be understood in terms of their deeply held core beliefs

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positive vs negative self-concept

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ideal self and real self

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Three major things that influence self-concept

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self-efficacy = belief of how good they are at a specific thing

locus of control = internal locus (I am in control of the outcome, so my actions count), external (my actions are useless so I can’t change the outcome)

Note: learned helplessness = in a specific situation they experienced the inability to change the outcome, and this belief gets generalized

self-esteem = how an individual views their self-worth, generally based on aspects they find important to them

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George Herbert Mead

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Social behaviorism = the mind and self emerge from communicating with others (start of symbolic interactions)

Preparatory stage: children imitate others

Game stage: children learn the role of others and understand the responsibility of each role

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“me” vs “I”

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Me = How they see “me”; so the belief of how others see them

I = How “I” see myself; how the person see themselve

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sanctions

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reward or punishment for behaviors against or following the norm

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Types of norms

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Formal norm/mores: written down and enforced

Informal norms/folkways: not written down but generally understood

Taboo: behavior so against norm it is deemed as forbidden (may or may not be enforced)

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anomie (normlessness)

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Created by Durkheim

Means, social conditions which there lacks guidelines of norms and values.

Leads to less social cohesive society

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Differential association

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The idea that deviance is learned through interaction with individual and community, as the process of deviant behavior involves rationalizations and learning techniques of deviance.

Note: Learning is dependent on the frequency and intensity of the interaction

Criticism: Does not factor in individual characteristics and experiences

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Labeling Theory

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People are reduced to the role they are labeled as. Their deviant action is promoted by self-fullfiling prophecies.

Criticism: Deviance is assumed to be an automatic process, and humans lack ability to resist social expectations

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Power and deviance’s intersection

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agent of social control = people with higher status able to create laws and regulates that determine who/what is deviant and what is normal

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Structural strain theory

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Use of deviant method to achieve the ideal life because the social structure fails to provide adequate opportunity to achieve that life

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Structural strain theory

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Use of deviant method to achieve the ideal life because the social structure fails to provide adequate opportunity to achieve that life

Criticism: criminal behavior that does not promote wealth are present like murder

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4 main forms of collective behavior

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Crowds: groups that share a purpose

  • causal crowd = spontaneous formation and little interaction
  • action crowd = gather for a specific goal
  • conventional crowd = gathered for a goal
  • expressive crowd = gather to express emotion

Publics: a group of individuals discussing a single issue, and it is planned (so there is a time of when it begins to when it ends)

Masses: a group whose information is prompted through effort of mass media

Social movements: with the intent to promote change

  • active movements = attempt to create social change
  • expressive movements = create individual changes
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A fad

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A collective behavior where comes and goes (become very popular but for a brief time and then forgotten)

Note: trends not fad, as trend are long lasting

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Mass hysteria

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Irrational collective behavior, causes by delusion of some threat that spreads through emotion

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Agents of socialization

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Family- first agent of socialization 
School- explicitly teach children norm and values 
Peer Group-
Workplace- 
Religion/Government-
Mass Media/Technology-
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Assimilation vs Amalgamation

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Assimilation = minorities trying to become part of the majority group by changing its culture

Amalgamation = majority and minority groups form a new group

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Kohlberg’ stages of moral development

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Stage 1: Obedience and punishment orientation
= How can I avoid punishment

Stage 2: Self-interest orientation
= What is in it for me?

Stage 3: Interpersonal accord and conformity
= What will make others like me?

Stage 4: Authority and social-order maintaining orientation
=What am I suppose to do to help maintain order?

Stage 5: Social contract orientation
=The greatest good for the greatest number of people

Stage 6: Universal ethical principles
=Morality is based on abstract reasoning

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Attributional theory

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Dispositional = internal causes

Situational = external causes

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3 Factors that determine internal or external attribution

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1) consistency: Does this happen in every situation?
2) Distinctiveness: Is the behavior only towards one individual or everyone?
3) Consensus: Is everyone acting like this or just that person?

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Prejudice vs discrimination and racism

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Prejudice = attitude and belief 
Discrimination = actions based on attitude and belief 
Racism = discrimination based on race or ethnicity
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Institutional discrimination

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Discrimination practices employed by organizations that have been codified into operating procedures

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Institutional discrimination

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Discrimination practices employed by organizations that have been codified into operating procedures

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Factors that play into prejudice

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Emotion- often a displacement of frustration in an attempt to achieve something

behavior

cognition- we tend to group similarities together so there is a predisposition for human beings to stereotype people

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Self-fulfilling prophecy

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stereotypes that lead an individual to align with it in the end because they believe in it

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stereotype threat

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Fearing of aligning with stereotype leading to poor performance

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Groups

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primary groups = long-term, personal, and emotional way; satisfy emotional needs
secondary groups = short-term, impersonal engagement; for pragmatic needs

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In vs Out-group

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In groups = people you think make up who you are; generally viewed in a positive light

Out-group = people you see that are different from you, and your friend group; sometimes viewed in a negative light

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reference group

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The standard measure you compare yourself to

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Dyad vs triad

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In terms of group size, dyad is more stable than triad but requires active cooperation and participation

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Draw backs in bureaucracy

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Bureaucracy is an administrative body and the process in which they accomplish tasks, which is done by dividing labor

1) workers follow a set of the procedure so hard to make changes when there is a need to adapt
2) workers become overly attach to their individual task and lose sight of the organizational mission as a whole
3) workers become attached to procedure and lack flexibility

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Deindividuation

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In situations where there is high arousal and low sense of responsibility, they will act in ways that are not themselves to satisfy group/mob mentality

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Factors that promote deindividuation

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1) Group size = bigger groups
2) Physical anonymity = face mask, mask, whatever makes them feel anonymous to the public
3) Arousing activity: there is a gradual escalation to a highly stimulating activity (can’t just be very stimulating right away)

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Factors that cause group polarization

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1) Informational influence = most common idea to emerge are the ones most favored
2) Normative influence = people want to conform and be accepted

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Stigma

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negative labels put on groups due to physical or behavioral deviance

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Groupthink

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A group that lacks productive debate and instead everyone goes with the flow

mind guarding = preventing opposite information from being said

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Stanley Milgram’s Obedience involving fake shocks.

3 factors behavior may be motivated by social influence

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1) compliant behavior = motivated by desire to seek reward or avoid punishment
2) identification behavior = motivated by desire to be liked
3) internalization behavior = motivated by belief and value integrated into individual

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Factors that influence conformity

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1) group size = 3-5 people enough to create conformity
2) unanimity = pressure to not dissent with everyone else agrees
3) cohesion = more likely to support group decision if there is someone the favor in the group
4) status = person agreeing is someone with power
5) accountability = people conform more when they have to respond in front of others
6) no prior commitment = once they made a public statement they tend to stick to it

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Ideal bureaucracy

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  1. covers fixed area of activity
  2. hierarchically organized
  3. workers have expert training in an area of specialty
  4. organizational rank is impersonal, and advancement depends on technical qualifications rather than favoritism
  5. workers follow set of procedure to increase predictability and efficiency
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Hindsight bias, halo effect, physical attractiveness stereotype

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hindsight bias = knew-it-all-along effect
halo effect = belief that people are inherently good
physical attractiveness stereotype = people that are good looking are good people

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The idea of “self”

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Self is composed of personal and social construction

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ADRESSING

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Age, Disability, Race, Ethnicity, Sex, SES, Indigenous background, National Origin, Gender

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self-reference effect

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The tendency to remember better information that is relevant to self

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Identity vs role confusion stage

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Adolescents try to figure out who they are and form basic identities that will build on throughout the rest of their life

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looking-glass self

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idea that person’s sense of self develops from interpersonal interactions with others in society and perceptions of others

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Deviance/non-normative behavior

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Actions that are against the norm

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Effects of deviance in social functions

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It reinforces and affirms social norms and values

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False consensus and projection bias

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False consensus = thinking that people agree with your our actions
Projection bias = same as false consensus but is believes instead of actions

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social perception and cognition

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Social perception = information we process regarding a person to understand their mindset and action; how we judge others

Social Cognition = ability to store and process information regarding our social perceptions

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Rationalization

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Process in which tasks are broken down into components to be efficiently accomplished

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Social facilitation vs social loafing

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One is the improvement of performance in presences of others, and social loafing is decrease in performance

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5 factors of social interaction

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social roles:

  • role conflict = conflicit between mutliple status held by same person
  • role strain = conflict within one status

statuses:
-master status = dominating social position the person contains, determines that person’s position in society
-ascribed status = given to the person regardless of effort
-acheive status = position that is earned
groups

social networks:

organizations:
Utilitarian organizations = members paid for their efforts
Normative organizations = membership based on morally relevant go like AA groups
Coercive organizations = joining but not by choice (ex. prison)

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