3.3 conformity and alienation
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3.3 Conformity and Alienation. Alienation. Someone who does not share the major values of society and feels like an outsider Reasons for alienation vary: Discrimination that excludes a member of a visible minority from participating in society Dissatisfaction of an unhappy teenager. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Someone who does not share the major values of society and feels like an outsider
Reasons for alienation vary:
Discrimination that excludes a member of a visible minority from participating in society
Dissatisfaction of an unhappy teenager
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Cults, Gangs that reject societies values
Few even set about trying to destroy the society in which they live through armed struggle
These people hope to build a purer society on the ruins of the old one
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http://cnettv.cnet.com/1999-columbine-massacre/9742-1_53-50023640.html
Columbine High School
Unabomber
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http://www.5min.com/Video/The-Oklahoma-City-Bombing-119995400
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6410595n
Timothy McVey
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These extremely alienated individuals are called Anarchists.
Ex unemployment
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People tend to adapt the values of the society that they live in
Politics
Virtually all people believe that their attitudes are right and proper (Subjective Validity)
We like being with people who share our subjective validity
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Without subjective validity most of us would experience uncertainty, a feeling that most people do not welcome
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Informational Influence human desire to accept information that
another, admired person tells us is valid
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Normative Influence pressure to conform to the positive
expectations of others
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Investigating the Desire to Conform
Stanley Milgram
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Results……….what do you think??
Lineup members defended normal line rules less than 50% of the time
Generally unwilling to do more than just give dirty looks or mild grumbling
People further back in line more unhappy than people at the front
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Close to 50% of subway riders gave up their seats (confused and surprised by request)
Many researchers unable to approach someone to request their seat because the norms of the subway ridership proved too stressful
Experiment helps us understand that people can become very uncertain when we avoid normal behaviours
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1. What does Milgram’s experiment tell us about (a) human desire to conform and (b) conventional behaviour?
Human desire to conform is very strong and conventional behaviour leans toward defending the rules only about half the time
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2. Why would the people farther back in the lineup be more vocal than the people immediately behind the researcher who butted into line?
Longer time to wait and they are further away from the norm violators
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3. What is the purpose of the unwritten rules of social behaviour? What would society be like without these conventions?
Help social interactions run smoothly. State of chaos
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Alienation can be an extremely positive force
Women in the 1960’s
Lead to the women’s movement
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Conformity generally has a tendency to discourage social change
People tend to do the same thing the same way year after year
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