Resistance and social change
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- Resistance to social influence
- Social support
- Resisting conformity
- Asch 1956
- Social support allows people to resist conformity
- individual feels more confident
- With social support conformity dropped to 5.5%
- Social support allows people to resist conformity
- Asch 1956
- Resisting obedience
- People resist obedience more with an ally who joins them in disobeying
- Disobedient figures act as role models which other people can model their own behavior from
- Shown in Milgrams 'two peers rebel' variation
- Two confederates and the learner refused to keep administering shocks
- Obedience rate lowered form 65% to 10%
- Disobedient figures act as role models which other people can model their own behavior from
- Two confederates and the learner refused to keep administering shocks
- People resist obedience more with an ally who joins them in disobeying
- Resisting conformity
- Locus of control
- The sense of control a person has over their life
- Internal locus of control
- They feel they have influence and control over their lives
- Need little approval from others
- Less likely to conform
- External locus of control
- Feel they have no influence or control over their lives
- Need greater approval
- More prone to normative social influence
- More likely to obey and conform
- Research into locus of control
- Conformity
- Avtgis 1998
- Conducted a meta-analysis study on locus of control and conformity
- Found people with a higher external locus of control were more likely to conform
- Conducted a meta-analysis study on locus of control and conformity
- Avtgis 1998
- Obedience
- Oliner 1988
- Studied non-jewish people who lived through nazi germany regime
- Compared 406 people who did protect jews to 126 who didnt
- People who did protect Jews had a higher internal locus of control
- Compared 406 people who did protect jews to 126 who didnt
- Studied non-jewish people who lived through nazi germany regime
- Oliner 1988
- Conformity
- Minority Influence
- Try to convert peoples opinions to the minority view
- Minority groups must behave in a particular way
- Commitment
- Displaying the message with confidence, commitment and certainty to persuade others to join
- The snowball effect
- Consistency
- Keeping the same message and group behavior over time
- Flexibility
- Being too rigid is off putting, the minority need to be able to compromise and negotiate
- This is what happens when all conditions are met
- member of the majority slowly move towards the minority
- As the minority grown in size it picks up momentum so more and more convert to minority
- the minority grows into a snowball so large that it becomes the majority
- As the minority grown in size it picks up momentum so more and more convert to minority
- Consistency
- Consistency
- Keeping the same message and group behavior over time
- Flexibility
- Being too rigid is off putting, the minority need to be able to compromise and negotiate
- Commitment
- Minority groups must behave in a particular way
- Research into minority influence
- Moscovici et al 1969
- Procedure
- In each group there were 4 naive participants. 2 were confederates
- Shown blue slides which varied in intensity. The participants were supposed to judge the colour
- Three conditions
- Inconsistent condition - called slides green on 2/3 and blue on remaining 1/3
- Consistent condition - confederates called blue slides green
- Control condition - answered all blue
- Three conditions
- Shown blue slides which varied in intensity. The participants were supposed to judge the colour
- In each group there were 4 naive participants. 2 were confederates
- Findings
- Inconsistent minority had little influence. didn't differ from control group much 1.25 %
- Consistent minority influenced participants to say green on 8% of trials
- Procedure
- Moscovici et al 1969
- Try to convert peoples opinions to the minority view
- Social Change
- Behavior is based on what people think others believe and do
- Rather than what they really believe and do
- 'actual norm'
- The gap between perceived and actual norms is called misperception
- 'Perceived norm'
- Misperception is corrected through social norms intervention
- Identify widespread misperceptions
- Use perception correction stratergies to inform about actual norm
- Hope to change behaviour
- Use perception correction stratergies to inform about actual norm
- Identify widespread misperceptions
- The gap between perceived and actual norms is called misperception
- 'actual norm'
- 'Perceived norm'
- Rather than what they really believe and do
- Behavior is based on what people think others believe and do
- Social support
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