Social groups
As we are currently discussing , the social groups in which we are raised and in which we live out our day-to-day lives can, to a great extent, shape the people we become.
For this assignment, you are asked to write an essay describing a social group to which you belong (or belonged at some point in your life) and explain how your membership in that social group influenced your self-concept, self-esteem, attitudes, and/or behavior.
Your essay should show deep reflection into the role social processes have played in shaping the person you are today.
Requirements:
– To receive credit for this assignment, you must address the prompt; in other words, you must (a) describe a specific social group and (b) explain how your membership in this group influenced at least one of the following: your self-concept, self-esteem, attitudes, and/or behavior.
– Your essay must be 500-600 words in length (no shorter, no longer).
– In your essay, you should apply 3 additional key concepts from Ch. 13 (the self) and/or Ch. 12 (social psychology) to describe, explain, and shed new light on your experiences. Importantly, you may not count self-concept, self-esteem, attitudes, or behavior as any of your three concepts. To be clear, everyone can and should use one or more of these concepts in their essay in order to address the prompt, but you can’t count them as any of your 3 concepts. In terms of which course concepts are eligible as your 3 concepts, please see the list of eligible concepts below. Concepts not included in the list of eligible concepts will not be accepted.
– In addition, to receive credit for each of your 3 concepts, you must actively demonstrate your understanding of that concept in the way you apply it to your own experiences.
-Put your 3 concepts in bold font, to indicate which 3 concepts you would like us to grade. Related to that, please put 3 and only 3 concepts in bold font; although you are welcome to include more than 3 course concepts in your essay, we will only grade you on the 3 that you put in bold font. If you put more than 3 concepts in bold font, we will grade you on the first 3 of those concepts.
– Your essay should be written in sentence and paragraph form, with correct capitalization, grammar, and spelling.
Ch. 13
Personality
Self-schema
Working self-concept
Narcissism
Better-than-average effect
Positive illusions
Social comparison
Upward comparisons
Downward comparisons
Self-serving bias
Collectivist culture/collectivism
Individualist culture/individualism
Extraversion
Neuroticism
Conscientiousness
Agreeableness
Openness to experience
Temperament
Situationism
Interactionism
Ch. 12
Thin slices of behavior
Personal attributions
Situational attributions
Fundamental attribution error
Actor/observer bias
Stereotypes
Prejudice
Discrimination
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Ingroup favoritism
Social Identity Theory
Attitude accessibility
Mere exposure effect
Explicit attitude
Implicit attitude
Cognitive dissonance
Persuasion
Social facilitation
Social loafing
Deindividuation
Risky-shift effect
