How Group Behavior is Affected by Culture and Socialization
How do we explain how some ordinary Germans can behave behaved like monsters during the 1930’s and 40’s? How do we explain why people are still racist? The answer understanding these questions about group behavior is sociology. There are factors that affect group behavior. Some of these include culture and socialization. There are a variety of theories that explain how this happens. Three main theories are Positivism, Class Conflict, and Social Integration. Positivism is the oldest and the start of sociology. Class Conflict is the most revolutionary side of sociology. Social Integration, a much more current theory, describes how people in society make each other feel alike through …show more content…
Class conflict is the struggle between two classes of people and culture is understanding how people by looking at them. Using culture to get an outsider 's look on the groups of people it was easy to see how one side, the bourgeoisie, were able to cheat the other side, the proletariat, because they owned the means by which the poor made money. Socialization is the way one learns the culture. The people in Marx’s time were being socialized in a world where they were either born rich or poor and there was a very bold line between the two. Class conflict was the way to have the poor stand up and split the wealth of the world evenly. A bloody revolution like the French had in late 1700’s never came, but change did occur and the labour unions during the industrial revolution protested for more rights and higher pay. They went on strike and it eventually worked. Now society is more complicated than just two classes, but a world-wide, bloody revolution where heads are being chopped off left and right like Marx envisioned never happened.
To sum up, class conflict influences humans to change their behaviors to try to create a society where the theory of everyone being equal and no one having power over another. It was taken to extreme lengths and reformed countries. Which greatly impacted the behaviors of groups within those countries and to groups outside of those countries. The way people socialized changed to adapt to the way …show more content…
It is important because it explains why people will do certain things. One example suicide. People with less social ties are more prone to commit suicide than a person with more social ties. In a group where it is the norm to have less social ties suicide rates would be much higher, but that would impact the group behavior. The way it shapes the group behavior is also important. The group could become more aware and start to depend on each other more and create more social ties or the group could go the opposite way. It could change to become more and more separated and let the suicide rates get higher. The way the group reacts shapes the behaviors and the group will react differently depending on the differences in social integration. It helps to explain why people do things because the less social ties they have the more alone they will
How do we explain how some ordinary Germans can behave behaved like monsters during the 1930’s and 40’s? How do we explain why people are still racist? The answer understanding these questions about group behavior is sociology. There are factors that affect group behavior. Some of these include culture and socialization. There are a variety of theories that explain how this happens. Three main theories are Positivism, Class Conflict, and Social Integration. Positivism is the oldest and the start of sociology. Class Conflict is the most revolutionary side of sociology. Social Integration, a much more current theory, describes how people in society make each other feel alike through …show more content…
Class conflict is the struggle between two classes of people and culture is understanding how people by looking at them. Using culture to get an outsider 's look on the groups of people it was easy to see how one side, the bourgeoisie, were able to cheat the other side, the proletariat, because they owned the means by which the poor made money. Socialization is the way one learns the culture. The people in Marx’s time were being socialized in a world where they were either born rich or poor and there was a very bold line between the two. Class conflict was the way to have the poor stand up and split the wealth of the world evenly. A bloody revolution like the French had in late 1700’s never came, but change did occur and the labour unions during the industrial revolution protested for more rights and higher pay. They went on strike and it eventually worked. Now society is more complicated than just two classes, but a world-wide, bloody revolution where heads are being chopped off left and right like Marx envisioned never happened.
To sum up, class conflict influences humans to change their behaviors to try to create a society where the theory of everyone being equal and no one having power over another. It was taken to extreme lengths and reformed countries. Which greatly impacted the behaviors of groups within those countries and to groups outside of those countries. The way people socialized changed to adapt to the way …show more content…
It is important because it explains why people will do certain things. One example suicide. People with less social ties are more prone to commit suicide than a person with more social ties. In a group where it is the norm to have less social ties suicide rates would be much higher, but that would impact the group behavior. The way it shapes the group behavior is also important. The group could become more aware and start to depend on each other more and create more social ties or the group could go the opposite way. It could change to become more and more separated and let the suicide rates get higher. The way the group reacts shapes the behaviors and the group will react differently depending on the differences in social integration. It helps to explain why people do things because the less social ties they have the more alone they will