In this video they show an experiment dealing with sociology. In the experiment they are testing to see how easily one person will start to copy habits that they are seeing happen over and over again. The experiment deals with a group of people, and they are supposed to stand up when they hear a beep. The group knows they are supposed to do that except for the one person, to see if she will copy what everyone else is doing. She does and keeps doing it even when everyone there has left. She continues doing it with people who are also not part of the experiment, making the experimenters wonder if the people will also copy. The others also joined in, proving that people will copy each other’s habits under pressure to fit in.
In the textbook they talk about experiments. When the book mentions social experiments they also add that the person being tested will not participate until there are three or more people doing the same thing. Which connects back to the video she started doing it after the third time, and because multiple people were engaging in the activity also. This connects to habits that people have developed. They developed those habits because they were taught them. The book mentions that people learn from what they have been taught which makes sense because kids learn from example, and this experiment proves that it is true from the sociological point of view. So keep in mind what you are doing or what others are doing because you could be under peer pressure or putting peer pressure on someone else whether it is good or bad.
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