The Impact Of Social Psychology On Our Society - 1377 Words

For years, things have happened in history and when we look back at it today we wonder how something like that could have occurred. You’ve heard the old saying that history has a way of repeating itself. I think this is because of our basic human instincts in life. As humans, we feel the need to be accepted by others in our society. Social Psychology focuses a lot on the way we think about ourselves and how others perceive us and at the end of the day it is clear that we long to be accepted. I want to dive a little further into that and focus on why is that so and at what cost will we go to in order to fit in? Do we keep our moral about us or do we throw that completely out of the window just to be accepted by society? We have clear cases†¦show more content†¦Or do we even have a choice in how we respond to social situations; moreover, does free will even exist? I do not believe a lot of people look at history with the perspective that psychology plays a huge role in why we do the things we do and I think maybe if we did, history would not repeat itself as much as it currently does. Taking a look back at history can influence how we proceed with things in the future. Slavery in America began when the first African slaves were brought to the North American colony of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619. They were brought to America to help aid in the production of crops like tobacco. Slavery was practiced throughout the American colonies in the 17th and 18th centuries, and African-American slaves helped build the economy of the new nation. The invention of the cotton gin enforced importance of slavery to the South’s economy. By the mid-19th century, America was trying to expand out west while abolition of slavery started to grow in the North. This movement provoked a debate that would start the American Civil War, tearing the North and South apart. A Union victory was supposed to free the slaves, slavery continued to influence American history. That is until the Civil Rights Movement that appeared in the 1960s, almost a century after emancipation! The foundations of