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S O C I A L C H A N G E A N D R E A L L I F E E X A M P L E S

S O C I A L C H A N G E A N D R E A L L I F E E X A M P L E S. What is social change? . A change in the social structure/behaviour, beliefs and attitudes in society which may occur through a majority or minority of individuals. How do these social changes occur?.

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S O C I A L C H A N G E A N D R E A L L I F E E X A M P L E S

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  1. SOCIAL CHANGE AND REAL LIFE EXAMPLES

  2. What is social change? • A change in the social structure/behaviour, beliefs and attitudes in society which may occur through a majority or minority of individuals

  3. How do these social changes occur? • These social changes can occur through a number of factors, a few highlighted important ones would be: • Attention • Consistency • Persistency • Augmentation

  4. ATTENTION • By attracting attention to the minority group draws attention to the views they are addressing, by doing things such as: • Protests • Marches • Strikes etc

  5. CONSISTENCY AND PERSISTENCY • Minority arguments can easily be dismissed and rejected, however, if the minority is: • Consistent (doing the same thing again and again) • Persistent (doing it to the same standard each time they repeat the process) • Their position and points raised are taken more seriously

  6. AUGMENTATION • Minorities frequently suffer for their views at the hands of the majority, (even if it’s unintentional). • Their position may be reinforced because they are willing to make personal sacrifices to bring about social change

  7. REAL LIFE EXAMPLES • INDIVIDUAL: ROSA PARKS • ACTION: First black woman to refuse to give up her seat in the 1950’s which led to her being arrested and taken away by the police • CONSEQUENCE: Her action led to the boycott of the Montgomery transit authority, in effect, fought for equal rights between black and white people

  8. REAL LIFE EXAMPLES • INDIVIDUAL: DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. • ACTION: Led the boycott of the Montgomery transit authority • CONSEQUENCE: One of the most widespread examples of social change ever experienced in the USA

  9. REAL LIFE EXAMPLES • GROUP: THE ROSENSTRASSE PROTEST • ACTION: A crowd of 200 women, mostly non-Jewish German women, married to Jewish men gathered outside Rosenstrasse 2-4, and began chanting, after a couple of months, the crowd of 200 women had grew to 1000 people (both men and women) • CONSEQUENCE: Nazi propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels ordered the release of the intermarried Jews held in the Rosenstrasse

  10. REAL LIFE EXAMPLES • INDIVIDUAL: MOHANDAS GANDHI • ACTION: Peaceful, non-violent protest to abolish the salt-tax • CONSEQUENCE: Abolished the salt tax

  11. EXAM QUESTIONS • Q1) Explain how social influence research helps us understand social change. (5 marks)

  12. Q1. ANSWER • Research into minority influence such as Moscovici et al helps us identify and highlight the importance of certain factors; i.e. consistency and persistency into explain how minorities bring about social change. • Moscovici et al conducted an experiment in which they were researching the effect of minority influence on conformity levels, however, deceived participants and told them the research was on a colour perception test. • 172 individuals participated and were asked the colour of 36 slides; all slides were blue but differed in terms of brightness. All these participants were split into groups of six; however, two of the six participants were in fact confederates. • There were two conditions under which participants were tested; consistent condition (in which the confederates called all slides green) and the inconsistent condition (in which confederates called 24 slides green and the remaining 12 blue). • Participants in the consistent condition yielded to the minority on 8.4% of trials • 32% participants said a slide was green at least once. • However, participants in the inconsistent condition only yielded on 1.3% of the trials. • Overall, Moscovici et al, alongside other psychologists help us identify and highlight the importance of consistency and persistency in assisting minorities bring about social change.

  13. EXAM QUESTIONS • Q2) Explain the role of minority influence in social change. (4 marks)

  14. Q2. ANSWER • Minorities can bring about social change over a prolonged period of time considering they stay consistent and persistent in what they want; i.e. the Suffragettes were a group of women who wanted to see a social change in which women would have the right to vote. They were successful in doing so, as they brought attention to themselves via protesting, marching etc, then kept this consistent through doing the same actions over and over again, and persistent throughout as they did it to the same standard each time. • Overall, they brought about social change by being consistent and persistent over a period of time

  15. EXAM QUESTIONS • Q4) Outline and evaluate the role of minority influence in social change. (12 marks)

  16. Q4. ANSWER • ASK MISS TO MARK YOUR ESSAY FOR A BETTER FEEL OF THE MARK YOU WOULD GET

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