2. Identify professional disciplines that influence human services. Professional disciplines that influence Human Services are sociology, psychology, and anthropology (Woodside & McClam, 2012, p. 11). Sociology is the assessment of an individual and the broader culture and tries to account for while understanding the differences within human culture. It also helps the professionals understand what affects the living, such as family structure and roles.
M3. Explain why conformity and obedience are important in the public services, with reference to research studies. Conformity and obedience are forms of social influence which strongly affect our behaviour is social situations, from following fashions and unwritten social norms which organise our behaviour, to committing immoral acts because we are commanded to by someone who appears to be in a position of authority. This essay looks at the similarities and differences between the three, looking specifically at the factors that influence each two. Conformity within a group entails members changing their attitudes and beliefs in order to match those of others within the group.
Our particular social location, also, affects our attitudes, experiences, and beliefs. Group dynamics, or how groups affect individuals and how individuals affect groups (Fall, 2011) within these attitudes, experiences and beliefs, confers a specific set of social roles, and privileges, which heavily influences our social identity and how we view the world around us. Our cultures introduce and teach us different roles, aspirations, values, and norms in society. The ascribed statuses, that is positions that an individual inherits at birth or receives involuntarily later in life (Fall, 2011), may affect most if not all of our values, norms, and roles whether we like it or not. In this paper I will be exploring and examining how my social location has affected me and
Conformity is a type of social influence involving a change in belief or behavior in order to fit in with a group. This change is in response to real (involving the physical presence of others) or imagined (involving the pressure of social norms / expectations) group pressure. Basically, it can be summed up as yielding oneself to group pressures and differs based on the social setting and pressures thereof. A person adjusts his/her thinking or behavior to coincide with a particular group’s standard. Explaining Sherif’s Results • Why did Sherif’s participants change their estimates when they had to call out their answers in the presence of other people?
Sarita Brown Chapter 1 Sociology explores and analyzes the ultimate issues of our personal lives, of society and the world. It's the science dealing with social forces that shape our lives, interests, and personalities. Sociologist dig deeper into the social life and the principles to explain human behavior as a whole. It also helps us to understand why we behave as we do. This is a necessary understanding because it brings about social change.
The presence of others affects our behaviors through influence. Peer pressure being the best example of this. Through peer pressure our peers influence us by encouraging use to change our attitudes, behaviors, and beliefs in order for us to conform to the group norm. A person who is influenced by peer pressure may not want to actually be a part of the groups or associate with them and as such change their behavior accordingly to the group behavior when around that group. A person may change his or her attitudes and behaviors when around social groups in order to feel accepted even if they don’t particularly believe in the group behaviors.
This awareness is hypothesized to be deeply threatening • A model hypothesizing that recognition of their own morality raises anxiety in humans, which they can reduce by affirming and conforming to their cultural worldview • This conforming act gives meaning to existence • Reminding people of their morality increases their use of stereotypes • Basically, conformity to social values and cultural worldviews can serve to protect people from death anxiety • This provides a sense of symbolic immortality o Social impact theory • A model that conceives of influence fro other people as being the result of social forces acting on individuals, much as psychical forces can affect an object • Strength of social force (intensity) matters • Immediacy refers to the closeness of each social force • Numbers refers to the quantity of social forces present • Psychosocial law • A principle in social impact theory that specifies the nature of the relation between the size of a group and its social influence. The principle predicts that as the number of social forces increases, overall social influence also increases, but at a declining rate
Our physical and social environments have an impact upon us. In this essay I will discuss this idea that where you live can affect your health and well being. Looking at social and economic factors, specifically social exclusion and poverty as examples of how our neighbourhood can have both a negative impact and positive effect on the health and well being of those who live there, taking into consideration the physical and social consequences of both. Poverty and social exclusion are often inextricably linked and have many negative impacts upon health and well being. But, there are schemes in place to combat these negative effects that can turn people’s lives around, meaning that in these instances the place in which people live has a positive effect upon their health and well being.
Myers (2010) provides an example as to how behavior is shaped by social influences making humans social creatures, “We speak and think in words we learned from others (Social psychology, p. 7). At times social environments or situations manipulate behaviors contrary to emotions, overpowering feelings and allowing the situation to guide behaviors. Another ideas of social psychology is that personal attitudes and depositions shape behavior, this describes the belief that inner attitudes and personalities
Discuss any major social problems or challenges that the community faces (economy, class strife, educational issues, out-migration, etc.) b. Utilize material from the class (or additional material) to explain why the social problem may be an issue for the community. c. What are some of the possible solutions to the social problem in your community? What available resources are there in your community that may assist in countering the social problem/problems?