Social psychologists

results be obtained. In 1961, as an assistant Yale psychologist, Stanley Milgram developed and conducted a groundbreaking study on obedience. His premise was to discover to what level a person would follow orders when the end result would produce harm on another. Milgram wanted to know how the common German soldier and officers, who participated in the horrors of the Holocaust, could use a “they just followed orders” excuse as their…

Throughout the persuasive approaches of the Psybrums, a common ground is established in terms of rhetorical situation. The exigence is that in social situations, people have to keep their volume down while calling on the phones using headphones or earpods. Additionally, they have to deal with minor inconveniences including reaching down to one’s phone to play music or texting long paragraphs with their fingers. The targeted audience are young adults ranging from the ages of 15-25. The Psybrums…

Tajfel believed that it is the social groups we identify ourselves with which determine our self-esteem. If you consider yourself in the ‘in group’ you present a higher self-esteem compared to if you consider yourself in the ‘out group’ which is generally degraded and belittled by the in group in order for their self-esteem and status to rise. Cooley believed that our social interactions with others determines our self-esteem. Knowing what others think…

My perception of the field of Social Work is helping people in need and providing the resources for people that need assistances. My first thoughts of social workers were caseworkers for families, but I realized social workers are so much more than that. Social workers are helpers, supporters, counselors, and sometimes a friend for their clients. I love helping people in any way possible and that is why I wanted to become a social worker. There are multiple paths I can take to help someone in…

are positioned in the spotlight or in other social circumstances. We usually get by and on with our daily activities with self-confidence. However, there are those who can't, or can't seem to ward off the scenario taking control of every social realm of their life. People who experience the idea of being critically evaluated continuously, and have an extreme worry of social interactions, are said to experience social anxiety, likewise referred to as social fear. They have a high level of…

parents who worked as servants for wealthy families, Wells observed firsthand the social divide between the rich and the poor. He believed in the idea of social Darwinism, that society was a ‘survival of the fittest’, and he conveyed this belief through his two immensely divergent races of Eloi and Morlocks.“Its…

article entitled, ‘Bullying Prevention as a Social Justice Issue: Implications with Asian American Elementary School Students’. Cixin et al. (2016) reported that a significant portion of its Asian American participants, believed that they were victimized or bullied because of their…

informed decisions with free will about their future. Within this theory, social relations between individuals are the main focus. People are no longer seen as rational beings working to achieve the goals of an organization but instead, they just as much driven by feelings and their own particular interests. (p149) What was also discovered is that there was an informal structure in every organization.…

that all ideas are socially constructed through language, American psychologist Kenneth Gergen (1999) uses anecdotes to create meaning and his reference to changing from writing with a pen to using a computer suggesting he has constructed the identity of being a pen writer. There is strength in this account with his affiliation with writing with a pen and his fondness for his parents helping him to construct his identity through social relations. His use of language gives a feeling of…

In the 17th century Karl Marx developed Conflict Theory. Karl Marx’s theory looks at what happens when one group attempts to rebel against the other group and the various roles a group of people (or one person) has over another group of people. Marxist conflict theory seeks to study the inner-workings of struggle, why struggle occurs, and how the ruling class manages to hold onto their power during struggle. Marxian conflict theory is quite a complex topic once you begin to dissect it. In fact,…