Three Forces That Drive Social Behavior

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People have different ways in interacting to others; some may vary from one’s self-esteem, culture, appraisal and lastly societal norms. Self-esteem in definition has a meaning of, “a confidence and satisfaction in oneself; self-respect” (Merriam- Webster; an encyclopedia Britannica Company, 2015). This can be divided into two levels, such that one is high self-esteem and the other is low self-esteem, high self-esteemed people tend to be more competent, independent problem solvers, and can accept his imperfection (Self-Esteem, 2015). While on the other hand, low self-esteemed people tend to be more antisocial, and too conscious of self-perception (Self-esteem, 2015). Thus, we can infer that possessing high self-esteem can make you …show more content…
Politics in many countries entirely control their citizens in which laws can be one of the elements. Through rules and regulations, the government can punish whoever will break or disobey it thus, giving the person a habit not to submit himself into any acts that will bear punishments (Three Forces That Drive Social Behavior, 2015). The second is by obtaining some incentives like in a marketplace, the more societal accepted behavior that you will perform, the more merit you can receive from those who were benefited (Three Forces That Drive Social Behavior, 2015). Lastly, community, it has a nature of collaborative workplace wherein a person has no legal obligations towards it and financial return will be receiving from it (e.g. church, book clubs and, local sports) (Three Forces That Drive Social Behavior, 2015). People behave the way they do simply because they want to attain their own set of goals according to Philippe Denichaud and John Parikhal (Why Do People Behave The Way They Do?, 2015). In an example of “Why is he always late?” simply he is always late because there is no punishment given to him when he is tardy and there are no incentives whenever he is early, we can conclude that he have chosen the best of all actions wherein this is always true and certain to all

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