Social Psychology

Presented To
MS. Misbah
Group Members
Ummay Hamna Nisar
Sadia Khan
Fatima Rafique
Manahil Sajid

Semester VI
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TABLE OF
CONTENT
Political Theory Social unrest

History Relative deprivation

theory

Types Criticism

Intergroup relations

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Political
Refers to power and authority
Related to polity
Applicable to a limited number of
persons

Theory
Derives from Greek word “Thoros”
Set of assumptions
Stands for a systematic knowledge of
phenomenon

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 Political Theory
Denotes a thorough understanding of political affairs. A personal
endeavor to understand and experience the present political reality.
Involves a study of development, society, and the government’s goal.
And also, an understanding of human perception.

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Theories in which we study about the ideas and values of state power.
Two approaches of political based theories
Based on any specific agenda which include observations and hypothesis is
include in terms of empirical approach.
Based on ideologies and set of agendas will be included in terms of normative
approach.
For Example in terms of empirically based political theories is Green Party

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BACKGROUND

Advancement in modern world and

DECLINE revolution in science

20th CENTURY Researchers to write arbitrary

COBAN AND EASTON About political decline

LASLETT Proclaimed it’s death

DAVID Four main factors to decline

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Four main
factors Historicism:
Value-based political ideas have
been eroded. Researchers are
more concerned in describing the
evolution of historical and
contemporary political ideals.
Crazy for science:
The over-reliance on scientific
procedures is one of the reasons
for the collapse of political theory.
Modern political scientists employ
the scientific approach to acquire
evidence about a subject
Moral relativism:
absence of value in political
thought. As a result, he believes
that political theory has declined
due to the loss of values in order
to make it more scientific.
Hyper factualism:
Political science, according to David
Easton, has long been preoccupied
with facts and data. They were unable
to add a theoretical dimension to their
study findings.
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Types Of Political
Theory

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Types
Normative theory:
Based upon cultural, social
and norms of people.
To examine the interests and
priorities of people.
For Example;
The recent government of
Afghanistan
Empirical theory:
Scientific analysis of society
To form government on the basis of
observation and hypothesis
so the empirical political theory is
focused on explaining 'what is'
through observation.
For Example;
Example of the role of money in
elections.
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Intergroup
Relations

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• The perceptions, attitudes, and
behaviors humans
• All humans belong to many different
types of social
• Social categorisation
• In group and out group members
• How they evaluate group members of
both out group and ungroup.

Intergroup Relations
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Social unrest:
The general condition of the community in which milling is both
frequent and widespread and in which rumor is recurrent is the
crucible in which the more highly organized forms of collective
behavior develop. This condition, known as social unrest, can lead
to outbursts of violence.

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 Distinguished
characteristics
Social unrest is marked by
contagiousness. One’s person Social unrest is perhaps the
There is a general most volatile of collective
restlessness merely annoys
impairment of collective status
others
life routines

C C V

H
G
People are hyperactive, the Social unrest is not specific with
response is out of proportion respect respect grievance or
activities

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Relative Deprivation
Theory

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Theory
▹ Samuel Stouffer, developed the approach while studying social psychology
during World War A belief that a person will feel deprived or entitled to
something based on the comparison to someone else.
▹ People can feel relatively deprived of tangible and intangible items
▹ Experience relative deprivation in regards to justice and rights.
▹ Leads to social change and social movement.
▹ Two types of RDT Fraternalistic relative
▹ Egoistic relative deprivation drives feelings of personal dissatisfaction and
unhappiness.
▹ Absolute deprivation is a condition where one's income is insufficient to
afford the basic life-sustaining necessities, such as food and shelter.

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 Runciman

The person does not The person knows other

have something people who have the
desired object

The person believes that

have a reasonable
chance of obtaining the
The person desires the object they wish to
thing they do not possess possess.

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Criticism
Critics of Relative Deprivation Theory show that the
theory does not explain why some people, who do not
have rights or resources, do not participate in civil
society organizations to get those rights or resources.
People simply want to avoid conflicts and difficulties
that may arise if they decide to join an organization.
It is believed that participants do more out of sympathy
than feelings of limited needs.

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 Thanks!
Any questions?

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