The influence of the culture on the aggressive behavior

Running head: SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Social Psychology
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1SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Part A
The influence of the culture on the aggressive behavior of the people has been very
crucial from various circumstances. Matt believes that human aggression is a fact that has always
been innate in the cultures of the person. However, I am Sandy and I am doing my major in
sociology. I do not support the views of Matt because I have learnt several things from my
subject (Ferreira et al., 2016). I have tried to convince Matt several times that innate culture will
not prove to be deciding factor in terms of implementing aggressive behaviors.
I have said to him that aggressive behaviors of the people will come up because of the
interactions between persons and situations. There are several variables in the society that will
cause aggression among people. The social situations in which people fall will lead to such
aggressions among common people. The social situations are actually the factors that determine
the behaviors of the people. Due to the various research studies, it has been seen that there are
several people in the society who possess high levels of self-esteem. This kind of self-esteem
might turn into pride as well. These people with high levels of esteem will make those people
very angry. I have tried to put Matt in such situations where he would not be able to suppress his
anger on someone or a group of people.
I wanted to find out the reactions of Matt when he was put into such situations. I have
also come across some situations in my school level that one of my friends used to think very
much about himself and wanted all the attraction (Ferreira et al., 2016). In this scenario, he faced
some situations where other classmates did not give him attention and he felt left out of the
group. This turned into his disappointment and this was the basic reason for his violent behavior.
If any person in the society feels threatened about his position in the society, he might become
angry and react aggressively (Björkqvist, 2018).

2SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
I believe Matt must understand the fact that a person belonging from good culture can
also react violently or aggressively if he feels he is under some serious threat. These aggressive
behaviors can also rise from interpersonal conflicts between different people also. My aim was to
teach Matt about the sociological concepts in which every person has to learn the art of
controlling their self-esteem and self-concepts in difficult situations. Otherwise, he or she would
not be able to suppress his feelings (Mason, Gunersel & Ney, 2014).
One must understand the fact aggression and violent behavior is harmful for the health as
well. I also taught Matt that levels of aggression vary due to the gender differences also. Boys
tend to show higher levels of aggression among children in school levels (Rodríguez-Hidalgo et
al., 2019). This might be due to their financial background, social status and insecurity within the
society. I must also mention to Matt that aggressive behavior can stem from verbal aggression
and hormonal factors too.
Part B
In this essay, me, Karen would like to describe about the social identity theory to Molly.
This is one of the most critical theories in sociological concept and it has several dimensions.
I must tell Molly that this social identity theory had been invented by Turner and Tajfel.
The primary aim of this theory was to learn about the reasons of psychological factors that led to
the discrimination of personalities within a group. There are some psychological points in which
the people within a specific group would act in a biased manner. This biasness within the group
might be problematic to attain the purpose of creating the group also. The critics have pointed
out that social identity among the human beings would surely lead up to fulfill their self-esteem
and make an evaluation of their proper identities within the society. According to this theory, the