Conformity & Socialisation

5 important questions on Conformity & Socialisation

Stanley Milgram carried out a study on 'conformity' - He found that 65% of participants playing the role of the 'teacher' would administer an electrical shock to their 'student', if told to do so by an authoritative figure. Name the term that this conclusion refers to...

Banality of Evil

Sociologist 'Solomon Asch' observed that: despite our individual beliefs on a certain topic, we'll go along with the opposing view of another group, because what they say convinces us that they're right. What is the term used to describe this theory?

Informational Conformity

What is the name of the Sociologist who describes the 'emergence of self' in the way that our interaction with society is an interplay of the 'I' & the 'Me'?

George Herbert Mead
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Charles Darwin believes that the 'socialisation process' is shaped by our biological instincts, in the way that species evolve overtime through the 'survival of the fittest'. In relation to this concept, what is the name of his theory?

Biological Determinism

Genie Wiley, a feral child, was 'primitive, unsocialised & hardly human'. Name the 3 main ingredients of the 'socialisation process' that she missed out on, due to being held captive for 13 years?

  • Language
  • Parents
  • Culture

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