Lesson
Social Influence
21
As a maturing adolescent, you are aware of your
strengths and weaknesses
which your thoughts, feelings, and behavior define on how you deal
with personal
relationships. In the previous module, you were
able to distinguish the various
roles of different individuals in
society. While in this module, it
focuses on how
social influences improve you as a person
for social transformation.
What's In
Directions: Write inside the
bar graph the
influential individuals in your names of the most and least
lifetime. On the
most influential person longer bar, write the
and on the shorter bar, names of the
influential person in write the names of
your life. Use the second the least
above) to present your quadrant ofyour paper (as
data. illustrated
Influencers
Family
Peers
Neighbors
Organization
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3 4
5 6
What is It
of
When you were in your formative years, you have a limited capacity
around you. You are not aware of how other
acknowledging what is happening
to you is that you
people treated or thought about you. The only important thing
family, or contentment when your need is
enjoy playing, spending time with your
times when adults always asked you on what you want to be
met. There were also
when you grow up.
broaden your
However, as you mature, personal and social relationships
perception about yourself and others. This perception helps in the
psychological
and learning information that influence your
process of knowing, interpreting,
driven by beliefs,
behavior. The way you perceive and how others perceived you are
values, and norms learned and shared among family members, friends, neighbors,
society. When the people you interact with around you
and other individuals in the
start to affect your behavior, the process is already known as social inluence.
the
Socialinfluenceis characterized by a change in your behavior caused by
Whether someone
people that empower you to adjust to a particular situation.
agrees or disagrees with you, it influencesyour behavior that may help or hinder
your social roles. Social influence also happens when you change your behavior to
adapt to social demands. Social influence is categorized by conformity,compliance,
and obedience.
in the
Conformity is changing your behavior to be the same with the others
group. For example, when you visit your friend's home. To show respect, you both
you were told that is courtesy. This
ask for the grandmother's blessing because it
the shared norms and values to
situationengages you to deal with it by adapting to
gain social approval rather than rejection. You were able to conform to the group
standards.
Conformity Compliance Obedience
Compliance is granting a request or demand asked by another individual
AGange of either a reward or a punishment. For example, during examination da)
you are required to take the test to finish completingthe
gradingperiod and failure
to do so may result in a
failing grade.
Obedience means changing your behavior to follow the
demand given by an
authority or an adult you have high regards with. For
instance, as a maturing
adolescent, you want to contribute to development through
inviting other friends to
exercise proper waste disposal. Whether you do it
purposely as you try to give the
leader your respect or purposefully as it empowers you to participate actively as a
follower. Whatever your reason is for obeving: it leads to social
facilitation. This
happerns when you are given a sense of responsibility that allows you
to perform
better if you are with other individuals.
Given these three situations, you can choose either to conform, to comply, or
toobey depending on how well you perceive yourself and how others seeyou. These
are all important in personal development. Comnparing your self-perception with
others' perception of you has contributed to your thoughts that influenceyour
behavior. To help you understand this mnore, let us apply the principle of sowing and
reaping to your everyday life.
One example of sowing is when you decided to cooperate with your group
mates with whomn you were able to share your ideas to complete the task; whíle
reaping is when your group was able to submit and present an innovativeoutput so
your teacher and classmates can give their feedback to compliment it. At the start,
you benefit from those feedback you received which eventually lead you to assert
influence.
Significantly, you are becoming responsible for your thoughts and behaviors
as you adapt to the needs of the situations in the same manner that you have self
control that empowers you to regulate your behavior to make positive choices in life.
The change in your behavior therefore enhances your role in becoming a
follower and a leader. Both these roles involve responsibility to serve others that can
be achieved through cooperation. Hence, a change in mindset is being mindful and
sensitive to your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
What?
So what?
Why?
