Is Your Audience’s Perspective Likely to Be Narrow? This question directs you to consider how your audience’s tendency to mine-is-better thinking, face saving, resistance to change, conformity, stereotyping, and self-deception may interfere with their comprehension of your views. A clue to the way those ten- dencies are likely to influence your audience on a particular problem or issue is the way they have influenced you in the past. (The more honest you are with yourself about your own occasional irrationality, the more sensitive you will be to your audience’s
Ethnocentrism is the way an individual look at the world from his/her own beliefs in their culture. They feel that their culture, race, or ethnic group is more significant and that their culture is more superior than any other culture of other groups. In feeling this way the individuals will judge other groups, such as their behavior, the language in which they use, religion. How it could be detrimental to society is that it could lead to false speculation about the differences in cultures. It leads to society making premature judgments about other cultures, not knowing all the facts about another culture.
What seems to be obvious might not be true at all. Conventional wisdom can be considered as convenient. Some people would rather believe what others tell them to believe because it might be safer to be politically correct. Some people don’t have to worry about figuring it out because it has already been figured out for them. The major problem with conventional wisdom is that is difficult to prove otherwise because it is already fixed in people’s
However if the behaviour is judged as immoral such as joining others in cheating there is less evidence of conformity as the costs are perceived as greater. Kohlberg found that individuals who are able to resist pressure to conform tend to be more morally advanced. Individuals can resist obedience if they have an ally who also opposes the authority figure. In Milgram’s study when the participant was given two allies that refused to continue giving shocks, only 10% of participants continued to the 450 volts shock level. Milgram claims that the presence of allies who resist an authority figure makes individuals more confident in their ability to do the same.
Able to collect data from a large number of respondents. | Respondents may not feel encouraged to provide accurate, honest answers. If respondents choose not to answer to a question and some do cooperate it may affect the data collected, the survey could then be bias. Some people may not answer the survey/questions as they feel it may present them in a way they may feel uncomfortable with. | Questionnaires | It is practical.
However, they are opposed by Interpretivists who say they impose the researcher’s framework of ideas on the respondents and they claim this may influence the respondents’ view on the question being asked. A reason as to why some sociologists choose not to use questionnaires when conducting research is because of a chance of a low response rate. This may be a result of people who receive questionnaires being not bothered to complete and return it. This can be a problem as the people who do not respond having a different opinion to those who do respond, this does not provide accurate representativeness. A higher response rate can be obtained if follow-up questionnaires are sent, but this can add to the cost and time.
If a member of the group fails to conform to the groups needs, he/she would lose credibility with the rest of the group. Conformity is a change in an individuals behaviour according to certain accepted standards within society as well as the influence of others whether this be a real or imaginary influence. There are 2 key concepts of conformity, acceptance or
it can refer to when someone - or perhaps a group of people - appear to be treated better than others and not necessarily for reasons related to their performance. It might result in someone being unfairly promoted before others, receiving special recognition or awards for doing the same work, being given more leeway to come and go during the day as they please, etc. The end result is that they appear to be treated better than others and for no valid reason. Regardless, the preferential treatment appears to be based less on what a person knows and more on who they know. Favoritism can be defined as partiality or bias.
They feel that they do not have time to take care of themselves, so they continue to hesitate between these two spaces. Thanks to research in Positive Psychology, we know that this way of approaching work, does not work as it is backwards. I believe if we can find a way of becoming positive in the present, then our brains work even more successfully, as we’re able to work harder, faster and more intelligent. 6) What are the implications or consequences of the speaker’s conclusions? The only issue I could think of would be people are not sure that this constant focus on happiness is healthy or desirable.
If a person doesn’t have any companions, they are more prone to being independent and perhaps unsociable towards other people. The importance of companionship is shown by the comparison of people’s personalities with or without