Understanding Social Psychology Concepts: Definitions and Terms

Social Psychology Concepts Defined

Attitude: Layout acquired which tends to respond with some consistency moving to a given stimulus or class of stimuli.

Alterophobia: Defined as: opposition and contempt of those who have another culture, another religion, another language, the poor, and also foreigners.

Assimilation: The process whereby a minority group gradually adopts the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture.

Self-Consciousness: Self-awareness involves recognizing one's own moods, resources, and intuitions. It means knowing our own emotions and how they affect us, what our strengths and our weaknesses are.

Character: A set of conditions that distinguish one object and differentiate it from others. Differential signs of a concrete man, in addition to the purely individual, are considered and classified more broadly arising from temperament and character.

Stereotype: An image or commonly accepted idea of a group or society. It's a simplified mental image. Normally, one follows the pattern of this stereotype.

Ethics: Dealing with the reflection on the way one must live and what is worth doing. It defines much of the personality of a human being and shall involve values, i.e., the scale of important parameters to which one presumably never gives up.

Civic and Behavioral Terms

• Citizenship (Definition 1): A citizen is a member of a political community. Membership in this community is known as citizenship, which entails a number of duties and a set of rights. Citizenship can be defined as "Law and the willingness to participate in a community, through self-regulatory action, inclusive, peaceful and responsible, with the objective of optimizing public welfare."
• Citizenship (Definition 2): It is a fundamental rule of comportment which must be used for harmonious coexistence. When it comes to civility in a society, we are referring to the ability to live in society by adhering to and respecting the prevailing rules.

Duty: An attachment or moral bond linking a free and rational subject to respect the right.

Desire: The wish to fulfill a want or satisfy a pleasure. Objects can be material, situations, or even persons. Desire forms part of human nature.

Discrimination: The act of separating or forming groups of people based on a criterion or criteria. In its broadest sense, discrimination is a way to sort and classify. It can refer to any field and use any criteria. If we talk about human beings, for example, one can discriminate between others by age, skin color, education, knowledge, wealth, eye color, etc.