Social Psychology Essays

George Tailor works as a supervisor for an engineering company in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. In the UK he had a reputation for speaking his mind and by doing so getting the best out of his staff. At the current project in Riyadh he supervises 12 British staff and nearly 50 Saudi staff. After a few […]

Leon Festinger created the cognitive dissonance theory as an attempt to explain why people desire to have consistency between their behaviors and actions. Cognitive dissonance is the distressing mental state people feel when they find themselves doing things that don’t fit with what they know, or having opinions that do not fit with other opinions […]

The unstructured problem usually faced by the upper level manager. This happen because the lower level manager handle the routine decision themselves and let the upper level manager deal with the decision they find unusual or difficult. The table below will shows us the different between programmed and non-programmed decisions. CharacteristicProgrammed DecisionNonprogrammed Decision Type of […]

In my social group, it is clear that we are a collection of individuals guided by roles and  norms. We, as friends, clearly influence each other, satisfy personal needs through   association, and could be classified as a unit due to our common relation and degree of similiarity. I also notice a great degree of […]

Organizational behavior is an applied behavioral science that is built on contributions from a number of behavioral disciplines (Wagner JA, Hollenbeck JR. 1995). Organizational behavior is the study of the many factors that have an impact on how individuals and groups respond to and act in organizations and how organizations manage their environments. In his […]

As we find atrocities within our society that is compelled by free market cronies, the stand for independence for the better good has come to be distorted. How can this be exemplified? David Hollander gives us a story of a young man who confines himself of images sough out by these exact societies that instill […]

In The Chrysalids by John Wyndam, Waknuk is a community throughly brainwashed by tribulation that causes the citizens to believe “normality” is the main focus in life. Consequently, Waknuk became a hostile environment totally intolerant of differences, which causes judgment, discrimination, and alienation to occur in everyday life. This quality of life is clearly evident […]

What does the 360 degree data tell us about Alex’s likely career success? If you were Sam Glass, would you invest more time in helping Sander progress at Landon? The 360? degree data draws a “good vs. evil” portrait of Alex. He is a sort of incarnation of House, MD, a main character of a […]

In Anne Bradstreet’s poem “The Author to Her Book,” the controlling metaphor is the image of a baby being born and cared for. This birth imagery expresses the complex attitude of the speaker by demonstrating that the speaker’s low regard for her own work and her actions are contradictory. The first effect of the birth […]

If praising employees for doing a good job seems to be a fairly easy and obvious motivational tool, why do you think companies and managers don’t often do it? I believe there are several reasons why companies and managers do not praise employees for doing a job well done. One of the reasons is the […]

One of the key thematic aspects of David Ives’ short play “Sure Thing” (1988) is the question of whether the play’s two characters, Bill and Betty, genuinely achieve communication adn connection by the close of the play or whether the perceived true communication and relationship between the characters is actually a result of superficiality and […]

How that U.S. -Vietnamese diplomatic ties have been restored, many American businesses are hoping to be in on the development opportunities offered by what some analysts consider to be Asia’s newest economic “tiger. ” Structural problems do abound in Vietnam. Its underdeveloped economic infrastructure, a ponderous and pervasive government bureaucracy, and an embryonic legal system […]

Stress is a pressure we get from many probable sources.  We could be pressured because of peers, the inability to get concrete things that we perceive to be important, lack of needed information, poor self-esteem and the absence of people to help us put things in proper perspective.  Social Support, on the other hand, can […]

Drug abuse, in sociological terms, can be explained from by the concepts of conflict perspective, functionalism and symbolic interactionism, each focus on the separate aspect of drug abuse as societal deviance.According to conflict theory, any deviance is bred by social inequality, which is to great extent meritocratic, taking into account the fact that one’s origin […]

In this 20-minute film by Roman Polanski, he features the rather odd team-up of two men, who emerged from the sea with a huge luggage, a wardrobe which they prefer to carry off top town. This short silent film showed the different reactions of people towards the two men carrying a wardrobe. Some of these […]

Groupthink refers to the agreement within groups, and the theory behind it was formulated by Irving Janis, a psychologist in 1972 who focused on the process of decision-making. The concept of groupthink centers on prioritizing group cohesion and solidarity over individual thoughts. This theory rests on certain core assumptions, and can only occur under specific […]

One’s self-concept refers to one’s idea of one’s identity as distinct from others. This self-concept emerges from the understanding of oneself as a being separate from others; one’s self-esteem emerges from one’s interactions with others. Occasionally, the terms “positive” or “negative self-concept” are used to describe self-esteem. (Harter, 1983). This paper examines whether the idea […]

The original development of impression management theory can be attributed to sociologist Erving Goffman. In 1959, Goffman proposed that even seemingly innocuous actions can be intentional in depicting a favorable image of oneself. He believed that people are essentially performers whose primary objective is constructing identity (Giacalone & Rosenfeld, 1989). Impression management theory relies on […]

I couldn’t find much information on Russia in the book or on the website, so I’m going to base my analysis of Russian culture on my experience. Power Distance Index. I believe that power distance index in Russian culture is quite high, as there is a huge gap between upper and lower classes, and not […]

To fully grasp Biddulph’s objectives and ideas, one must initially comprehend the foundation of his publication. The book Manhood, published in 1994 and with a sales record of over a million copies, addresses issues like manliness, partnerships, sexuality, companionships, parity, as well as parenting. Its aim is to investigate these themes and scrutinize the challenges […]

Policy affects the work of my team. Our main objective is to hand over all lighting controls projects on time and within budget. Our team planning starts every Monday morning when I run the weekly sales report, this shows me all new projects that have been ordered over the last week. The new projects are […]

Goodnight Mr Tom by Michelle Magorian, is set in a small village during the Blitz, and explores the lives of child evacuee William Beech, and his guardian Mr Tom Oakley. The novel exhibits themes of patience, love, community, and in particular, healing. It is primarily Mr Tom’s love which assists in Willie’s emotional and physical […]