Minority Influence on majority, Summaries of Sociology

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In-groups and out-groups In-group is a term used to describe people like us, and an out-group consists of people that do not share the same characteristics as us. Hogg & Vaughan (1998) argue that we are most likely to be influenced by members of our in- : group than we are by members of an out-group. { i_ An example might be the British government of the early 1900s who,as it consisted J Be cminately of upper class male MPs, was moré likely to listen to the message being put forward by Suffragette women if the Suffragettes wer also upper class. y ~ i