What does affect your role in a social group? Your skills, knowledge, abilities or strength (physical or moral)? Are you sure that you will have the same social place with different people? It seems that we choose how we behave among our countrymen, but it is not. First and foremost, it all depends on the conditions in which the group is.
Consider one of the most interesting and controversial experiments in psychology and sociology . Didier Desor conducted a study on the behavior of rats "Potential Stock Differences in the Social Behavior of Rats in a Situation of Restricted Access to Food ". I will not describe it with all details, just main moments.
Scientists have selected six adult rats (male), who had lived before in the equal comfortable environment. They were put into a special cage: it has …show more content…
After a few months of such conditions, workers gave food to exploiters immediately, without fighting. There were no more attempts to take food from independent. In the absence of food continued to beat the whipping boy.
The experiment was repeated 20 times with new rats, in 99% of cases the roles were always distributed the same. (2x exploiters, 2x workers, 1x whipping boy, 1x independent).
Finally one of the most interesting parts of the experiment: in one cage scientists placed 6 rats with the identical social roles from the older experiments. : 6 exploiters, 6 workers, 6 independent, 6 whipping boy. And the same thing happened again, rats re-distributed their social roles through fights and always came to the initial result (2 exploiters, 2 workers, 1 whipping boy and 1x independent.
Thus, it was found out that irrespective of the social role in the past, the new group will define the new role of the individual.
Didier Desor argued that there is no significant reason why the situation with the rats can't be repeated among the people. No one has conducted a special research on this, but we have a bright
Consider one of the most interesting and controversial experiments in psychology and sociology . Didier Desor conducted a study on the behavior of rats "Potential Stock Differences in the Social Behavior of Rats in a Situation of Restricted Access to Food ". I will not describe it with all details, just main moments.
Scientists have selected six adult rats (male), who had lived before in the equal comfortable environment. They were put into a special cage: it has …show more content…
After a few months of such conditions, workers gave food to exploiters immediately, without fighting. There were no more attempts to take food from independent. In the absence of food continued to beat the whipping boy.
The experiment was repeated 20 times with new rats, in 99% of cases the roles were always distributed the same. (2x exploiters, 2x workers, 1x whipping boy, 1x independent).
Finally one of the most interesting parts of the experiment: in one cage scientists placed 6 rats with the identical social roles from the older experiments. : 6 exploiters, 6 workers, 6 independent, 6 whipping boy. And the same thing happened again, rats re-distributed their social roles through fights and always came to the initial result (2 exploiters, 2 workers, 1 whipping boy and 1x independent.
Thus, it was found out that irrespective of the social role in the past, the new group will define the new role of the individual.
Didier Desor argued that there is no significant reason why the situation with the rats can't be repeated among the people. No one has conducted a special research on this, but we have a bright