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Human Behavior in Social Environment
1. To enable students to develop an understanding of dyads, groups and organization.
2. To understand how social problems can be analyzed in terms of social psychological theories.
Introduction: Nature and Scope; Approaches to Social Psychology; Methods- Observation, Experimental, Sociometry, Cross-Cultural
Attitudes:Nature; Attitude-Behaviour Link; Persuasion- Strategies for Attitude Change; Measurement of Attitude
Group Dynamics and Inter-Group Relations: Nature of Groups; Consequences of Belonging-Decision Making, Cooperation and Conflict; Prejudice: Nature and components of prejudice, Acquisition of prejudice, Reduction of prejudice. Inter-Group Conflict, Intervention techniques
Social Interaction Influence: Pro-Social Behaviour: Personal, Situational and Social-Cultural Determinant; Bystander Effect; Aggression
Current Social Issues: Poverty and Gender issue in India. Environmental Issues : Personal space and territoriality.
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