Social roles

Question 1

What are social roles

Answer 1

“parts people play as members in society’s social groups.

Question 2

What’s expectations

Answer 2

people views of acceptable behaviour

Question 3

What study is associated.

Answer 3

Zimbardo Sanford prison experiment.

• volunteer male students where given one of two roles ; prisoner or guard.
• guards had glasses, prisoners where given numbers.
• resulted in ending early as they conformed to social roles.

Question 4

A03 of associated study

Answer 4

Internal volatility as measured what it said
Gave rule of no physical harm so safety
Easy to get volunteer sample
Did phycological test before so no participant variable
gave consent

Demand characteristics as people try to please or screw investigator, one admitted to acting in the experiment for their own gains.
investigator effects as researched became a warden in study
ethical issues as participants didn’t know they has a right to withdraw and where treated in a way that caused phycological harm.
Volunteer sample was mainly university males so unrepresentative sample (gender and age bias)
Mundanrealism- made a prison didn’t use a real one