Report on Social Factors of Paranormal
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Added on 2020-06-03
Report on Social Factors of Paranormal
Added on 2020-06-03
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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1Critical evaluation of social factors to believe in the paranormal...............................................1CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3.........................................................................................................................................................4REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................5
INTRODUCTIONIn popular culture, folklore and other non-scientific bodies of knowledge paranormalactivities are described. The existence of paranormal, everts do not come in the context ofnormal experience or scientific explanation. From the hypothetical concepts a paranormalphenomenon is different (Billows and Storm, 2015). The dark matter and dark energy does notcome in the paranormal phenomena. The ghosts, extraterrestrial life, crypt-ids, unrecognisedflying objects' etc are some notable beliefs of paranormalIn this report a critical evaluation will be done on the social factors that contributestowards believe in paranormal activity.Critical evaluation of social factors to believe in the paranormalIt is been represented by polls that more than eight out of ten adults profess believe inparanormal phenomenon in spite of strong public skepticism from scientific community. It isbeen viewed as a social problem by some scientist. The variety of sources are been blamed byBurr and Dick, (2017) , that leads to the belief in paranormal activity. The social factors such aslack of critical thinking skills, lack of education system. Cultural cycles,fads etc oftencontributes towards the believe in the paranormal phenomena. There is a direct and indirectinfluence on each other's action,belief and attitudes when individuals are socially proximate.When there are esteemed sources, targets and engaging media it is then well established thatspread of beliefs in context highly conductive to persuasion. As per Dagnall, Drinkwater andClough, (2016), for the diversity , ubiquity and broader social patterning of beliefs ofparanormal social bonds and persuasion may not account .A passive social influence processmust transpire for mere exposure to be sufficient for spread of paranormal belief. This process ispatterned by social networks and by the customer demographics for radio and televisionprograms, movies, books ,newspaper etc. The support for the paranormal claims is been given bypopular media .In the social factors the acceptance or rejection of the claim is conditioned.Through the journals of the field general theories of social influence do not cut such a wide swat.The exception in this may be social impact theory. As per Galliford and Furnham, (2017), onseveral for this theory is expanding and prominent journals the research continues to be doneand published. In a psychological states and subjective feelings, motives and emotions there is agreat variety of change due to social impact. This change takes place in an individual,a human oranimal as a outcome of the real, implied or imaginative prescience or actions of other1
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