Alienation

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• Inequal access, privilege to certain social groups.

• Exclusion can summarize this.

• Micro

  • With a small group of friends

• Macro

  • Socioeconomic differences in ses.
  • Someone not hiring someone from a poor background, even if they're more qualified.

• Consequnces

  • Don't think marginalised people can progress. There are other forces at play against them they don't have full control over (skill issue though).
  • Can create devious people or sub cultures.
    • Sub-Culture
      • A culture inside another culture, those people share similar ideas which are different than the larger group they are within, but share it with the Sub-Culture. A common identity for each Sub-Culture.
      • They may be alienated.

• Collective behaviours

  • Mob mentality
  • Spontaneous gatherings based on a goal. Response to natural catastrophies.

• Convergence Theory

  • When a large group converges, there is collective action that happens quicker. Because there's a postive feedback loop of their ideas.

• Theory of rational decisions

  • There is a moment where we take action after taking in all information instantly available.
  • The threshold is the difference. How many people would do it?
    • = Social Proof
  • How many people need to do something for you to do it aswell. That is threshold.

• Prosocial Behaviour

  • Collectively good behaviours exist.
  • Where a large community will help others. This strengthens their social bonds and community aspect.

• Stereotypes

  • Discrimination
    • Treat certain groups unfair based on their traits
  • Asians are bad drivers
  • Asians are good at math
  • Types
    • Manifested
      • Direct actions taken, either upon past experiences or by stereotypes.
    • Systemic
      • Systems put in place by structural functionalist ideas that should help all of society, but is implemented in a way where a certain group is disadvantaged, either intentionally or subconsciously.

• Causes of stereotypes?

  • Learning Theory
    • Judgements aren't innate
    • Based on Social Status
      • Socializing between people
  • Competition Theory
    • Economic value also determines someone's place socially and can also mean that.
    • People taking your place in the workforce means that they're a threat, so you'll do something about that.
    • Enforced by a group vs. group mentality that needs to be there to have a feedback loop inside each group to move forward. This can be positive (Hamza) or negative (Porn and it's acceptability in society).
  • Frustration + Agression Theory
    • Being mad at those who achieve what you want easily (they don't almost ever, if they do, it doesn't last).
    • This can be used to generate positive loops or negative. Ex: Hamza and Nazis
  • Ignorance Theory
    • No experience with a certain group can make you more likely to believe things about them that may not be true.
    • High ego can mean higher barrier to change someone's mind
      • Or narcissists
    • Ex:
      • Evaluating other cultures based on your culture (Doesn't make sense, but people are ignorant and egotistical to acknowledge this, thus why it's common enough to be here).