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Deviance and Altruism in Social Psychology

   

Added on  2023-01-03

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Social Psychology
Brief Illustration of Deviance and Altruism

Definition and Meaning
• It is the study of how the society and the people think and act.
• This scientific field seeks to understand the nature of the individual
behaviour and the causes that influence the behaviour.
• Evaluates human behaviour.
• Evaluates the factors that influence the behaviour.
• Seeks to understand the beliefs, motivations, thoughts and goals of the
individual sin the context of society.
(Hewstone, stroebe and Jonas. 2016)

• Theories of Social Psychology
oConflict Theory
oStructural Functionalism
oSymbolic Internationalism
(Gross and Mcllveen. 2016)

Methods of Social Psychology
• Comparative analysis
• Computational Analysis
• Critical Theory
• Ethnomethodology
• Ethnography
• Positivism
• Quantitative Analysis
• Qualitative Approach
• Historical Analysis
(Gross and Mcllveen. 2016)

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