Role of Social Psychology in Understanding the Culture of Goths and Emos

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Social psychology refers to the process of understanding behaviour of an individual in the
social context. In broad manner, social psychology is the revision of the social situation.
According to Gordon Allport, the discipline of social psychology is considered the scientific
methods “to defines and comprehend how the feeling and thought of individuals are impacted by
the imagined or actual presence of other human beings (Chiu, Gries, Torelli& Cheng, 2011).
There are three main topics in the social psychology that cover three broad topics such as how
people think about, influence, and relate to one another. Social influence covers three areas such
as conformity, compliance and obedience. The social situations in our surrounding develop
social influence (the method by which other people can bring change in our thoughts and
feelings by which we change theirs). It is the study that is related to the dynamic relationship
between the people and individuals. The personality traits, individual characteristics and
motivation factors of each individual are entirely different of each person. It can be said in the
context of the social psychology that it is the stem of psychology concerned with how social
influences focus how people act and think.
The culture of Goths was started in England at the time of 1980s, where it started from
the audience of gothic rock. The name of Goth had derived from the genre of music. It is the
culture that has survived longer than any other culture. It is imagery and cultural proclivities
specify impacts from 19th century Gothic literature and horror films. Grossmann &Varnum
(2011) stated that the categorization and the definition cannot be given in easily manner as in
now spans various continents, has developed to involve a huge range of clothing and musical
style. For instance, Mallgoths in the USA, Dark in Latin America, Neogoths in the UK. With
respect to the impact of Goths on the society, it has been found that the Goths have made their
contribution to arts and fashion and they have been harassed and demonized not only physically

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bout also emotionally. It is done because the culture of Goths is considered as the high visible
counterculture subgroups for which, schools, religious organizations and parents have to pay
significantly attention in the concern of potential threat in order to establish the norms.
Meanwhile, there is a concern of increasing attention for youth who like antisocial and rebellious
behaviour due to pay attention or overreacting to the Goths subgroup (Ahn, 2011).
In the context of appearance of EMO teens prefer black colour, definite of goth trends,
which is taken in use with liberality, along with makeup their eyes. The age of EMO is usually
between 13-19 years. The appearance of Emos is entirely different from Goths as they wear
black outfit generally and same rock fans. Boys have dyed their hair in contrast colour to get
more attention from people while, girls prefer short hair and covers one eye with hair and prefer
the colour of hair in a mix of blond with green and pink. They love to put tattoos in their body
that can be easily seen by others (Peters, 2010). In social psychology, behaviours and attitudes
are considered as learning. The social psychology helps in filling the gap between sociology and
psychology.
On the other hand, the group of psychology of an EMO can be elaborated by some
forecast features such as introversion, sensitivity, anxiety and depression. Also, the nature of
them is to victimize themselves, focusing on search out the flavour the terrible components of
life. The self imagination of power of EMO is eradicated which lead them into painful situation
and even they cur themselves with blades and even suicide. The preference of EMO is to be
alone every time and when they communicate with the others; their voice is very low and looks
only sown. The main motive of them is to showing complaint in against of family, societies and
social problem. EMO are the rebels who do not accept the world and avoid themselves (Chiu &