Processes of social change
- Created by: Emilypearson519
- Created on: 13-05-18 09:19
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- Process of social change
- 'A whole society adopts a new belief or behaviour which then becomes widely accepted as the norm.'
- Processes involve minority influence, internal locus of control and disobedience
- Minority must be clear on what they are asking for and not change their minds, this creates uncertainty amongst the majority
- Once persuasion has begun, the snowball effect occurs
- More and more people adopt the minority opinion until the minority become the majority
- Minority will then conform as a result of group pressures, majority opinion becomes law and people have to obey
- More and more people adopt the minority opinion until the minority become the majority
- Minority opinion has become the dominant position in society
- People often don't remember where the opinion originated from = crypto amnesia
- Once persuasion has begun, the snowball effect occurs
- Links to individual behaviour as minority resists pressures to conform or obey
- Minority must be clear on what they are asking for and not change their minds, this creates uncertainty amongst the majority
- Mainly consists of NSI
- Example: The Suffragettes
- Even women had conformed to the gender roles society had given them
- A number of women came together for suffrage (the right to vote), they became a small group resisting the pressure to conform
- Emily Davison threw herself under one of the King's horses and died a few days later (Committed to the cause)
- A number of women came together for suffrage (the right to vote), they became a small group resisting the pressure to conform
- In the late 19th/early 20th century few people saw women as people who should be allowed to vote
- In 1918 Parliament passed the Representation of the People Act giving some women over the age of 30 the right to vote.
- Even women had conformed to the gender roles society had given them
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