Waseem Ahmad BhatAIR 7 · CSE 2022 · 174 wordsTheir whole copy
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Social influence is the change in attitude, behaviour etc of a person due to contact with other people.
It is a descriptive concept which can be used in different ways as follows:
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- Social influence: A source of good
- To build inter-community relations based on compassion & not stereotype
- eg: Ek Bharath Shrestha Bharat campaign
- To change negative social behaviours
- e.g: SBM awareness campaign against open defecation
- To foster innovation
- e.g: Atal Tinkering labs
→ Social influence as source of bad
- May lead to 'broken window' & negative socialisation for youngsters e.g.: Juvenile crimes
- May cause bad habit diffusion e.g.: Smoking among peers
→ Social influence as a source of evil
- Oratory and social skills can be used to create social dissensions e.g.: Communal riots in India - Muzaffarnagar (2013), etc
- To even cause genocide & ethnocide e.g.: Stalin, Hitler against jews.
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This shows the variation of human behaviour. What it depends on is authority legitimate, be that evil or good (Stanley Milgram experiment)