Summary Analysis of I’ll Have What She’s Having: Effects of Social Influence and Body Type on the Food Choices of Others Introduction. This study examines consumer body type affects the food eating habits of those around them adjusted for whether the influencer is overweight or thin and whether the person being influenced has high or low self-esteem. The authors note that several authors point to a sedentary lifestyle and the high consumption of food as the… Read More
Summary Analysis of Social Influence in Stockmarkets: A Conceptual Analysis of Social Influence Processes in Stock Markets Introduction. The common misconception is that investors in stock markets, referred to as homo economicus at the beginning of the paper, are isolating individuals who do not gather in herds, and are thus not influenced by the herd. However, homo sapiens do gather in herds and are influenced by other humans, whether it is sometimes… Read More
Hypothesis Assignment: Framing Social Values (Work with me here. I am formulating ideas for a thesis on unintentional propaganda and this is part of an assignment so it may not be immediately understandable. Big things, good things, are coming.) Hypothesis: Individuals of multiple ages, social classes and genders within a specific ethnic group internalize general frameworks (“interpretive schemata” or “logics… Read More
The Influence Of Intentional and Unintentional Propaganda in Small Groups (For those that see the similarity to the previous Propaganda and Goffman’s Face to Face Interactions, this is the same paper with a major overhaul of the introduction and a minor rewrite of the body with one concept deleted due to confusion. I am taking this paper to a few conferences this year to wow… Read More
A Qualitative Methods Research Proposal (By no means is this complete, but I have to start someplace) I. Introduction. Intentional propaganda is the systematic propagation of ideas in a deliberate manner in order to encourage or instill a particular attitude or response and it is a broad and infinite subject. In other words, it is deliberate and intended. Here I… Read More
Interpretation Of Current Concept Map The current concept map encompasses almost the entire history of Propaganda from the beginning of recorded time to the present day and the current study of propaganda in small groups. However, because this is such a vast subject, the map has missed many areas, including the Greek and roman “origins” as well as several others.… Read More
Propaganda And Goffman’s Face-To-Face Interactions While Erving Goffman expanded the scope and study of sociology to face-to-face interactions between individuals and small group gatherings, little has been said of the application of those ideas to propaganda on a personal level. I will argue that Goffman’s study of frame analysis and impression management apply to propaganda of various types that he… Read More