The Social Approach
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- Created on: 15-02-16 09:59
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- The SOCIAL Approach
- Assumptions:
- Concerned with the ways our interactions with other people affect the way we think, feel and behave.
- Concerned with how we make sense of ourselves and how we judge ourselves (self-perception and identity).
- Concerned with how we relate to others and so includes areas such as conflict, cooperation and relationships.
- Weaknesses:
- Ethnocentric bias - research mostly conducted in the West.
- Reductionist - Focuses on groups and the environment. Ignores genes and cognitions.
- Strengths:
- Supports nurture in the nature-nurture debate.
- Provides explanation for great phenomenon e.g. Nazis and conformity.
- A2 Studies
- Farrington, Wikstrom, Waxler-Morrison
- Assumptions:
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