Based on the answers with a rating of 1-5 on the personality quiz, an average of each score relating to the five factor model was retrieved. I rated the highest in openness to experience and the lowest in extroversion. I think this is fairly accurate of my personality. I tend to be shyer and less talkative, especially when I meet new people but when I’m with my friends I am more outgoing since I’m comfortable. Because of this, my friends may not recognize how shy I am.
Do pressure groups strengthen or weaken democracy? It is extremely difficult to reach a conclusion on whether groups are good or otherwise for democracy but it is important to realise how they can be both beneficial and damaging to it. In debating the matter we face the difficulty that the group’s methods, aims and composition vary significantly and so they cannot all be thrown into the same group. So while we make comments on judgements they are only generalised and do not apply to all groups in all circumstances. Government’s aims are always to please the public, or do the best for the state and so these groups clearly show the government what a certain band of people wish to happen.
Milgram believed they acted as a mechanism to help people cope with the strain of having to obey an immoral command. Agentic shift , people usually operate in an autonomous state behaving voluntarily and aware of the consequences following their actions. When Milgram’s participants were debriefed , many reported that they knew it was wrong to deliver dangerous electric shocks, but that they felt the experimenter was responsible and not them. Authoritarian personality is another explanation of obedience. It is that an individuals personality may make them more or less inclined to obey an authority figure.
The 12 angry men were your average men, but each one had a different side. One of the guys was your average sport’s loving guy, some were the typical ’followers’ of a crowd and few were smart; observant people. I recognized each person had a characteristic and/or a trait, but most did not know it or did not want to show it. A great topic, which can relate to the group of men in this movie and be a way to better understand this movie, is Groupthink. This is a term/topic, which was developed by a social psychologist name Irving Janis.
Provide a rationale for your answer. The finding that the depression scores decreased from baseline to posttest in the experimental group is expected. Given a lower depression score is favorable for these patients, having these patients participate in the intervention is more likely to be a positive experience because of the possible impact the experiment can influence these patients’ well-being through this empowerment program. Because of the former, the desirable outcome of happier (not as depressed) patients is expected. 4.
The research is, therefore, unrepresentative of interests of wider population. Secondly, the questionnaires are seen as being inflexible. When the questionnaire’s responses are finalised, the researcher can see little scope for formulating new interests or ideas and exploring them as it can be done in participant observation. Furthermore, the interviewer may collect biased data because in standardised questions he/she already imposes interests of their own and excludes questions that might be important to respondent. Thirdly, where the sociologist has interpretivist perspective, detachment may seem a big barrier to overcome.
Conformity is said to have a broad meaning because it refers to individuals that display common behaviors with their peers; and these individuals are believed to help no social rights toward their behaviors. In group settings, people are also believe to conform to a group because their behaviors are often influenced by senior members of the group. (Martin and Bull, 2008). The likelihood for people to conform can be determined if: they are alone, emotional connection to the experiment, and in the absence of a partner or with the support of another person. (Bleske-Rechek, 2001).
Together, these rules are based upon the importance of empathy and this ethic of reciprocity has been what many different cultures have resolved conflicts with. However, the Golden Rule is no panacea. Think about it: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” This is based upon the assumption that other people would like to be treated the same way that you would like to be treated. And we know instinctively that this cannot always be true, because everyone is different and has differing tastes and preferences. So now what?
Many people argue that times change and people of a previous generation do not know what to do with problems of their generation. This is true but society doesn’t change after just a generation or two, it gradually changes and the previous generation will always have had similar problems that we as in this generation experience. If your belief is so extreme that you would not conform no matter what, what is the harm of getting some advice? It will still and always be up to you how you solve that predicament. We all have our strengths and weaknesses, our pros and cons, what we know and what we don’t know.
Disobedience is needed in order for a person to express their individualism or else they are taken as the “organization man” who conforms to society just to be part of a social norm, which is wrong because then the world will never advance and have new concepts since everyone is playing the same role in society. To begin with, conformity among people is a common thing because individuals feel the need to be a part of something, so they conform to society because they have a fear of being rejected. There are so many different social groups in places like schools, work fields, sports, and usually just society at large. For