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Chapter 2

Seeing and Thinking Sociologically

Images of the Social World

 


A Test of Perception

Which line in fig. 2 is the same length as the line in fig.1?. A series of experiments by Solomon Asch, testing the effects of social pressure on individual perceptions, showed that some people in some situations will go against the evidence of their own senses if the people around them seem to perceive something different.

David Newman and Rebecca Smith. (Created September 14, 1999). Copyright Pine Forge Press.
http://www.pineforge.com/newman.