Robert Putnam, social capital and civic community. Robert Putnam has been described as the most influential academic in the world today. His book Bowling Alone seems to have struck a chord with many concerned with the state of public life.

Social psychology is the study of how people’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others. In this definition, scientific refers to the empirical investigation using the scientific method.

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Pitcan, Mikaela, Alice Marwick, and danah mand. (2018).”Performing the Vanilla Self: Respectability Politics, Social Class, and the Digital World.”

Heteronormativity is the belief that people fall into distinct and complementary genders (male and female) with natural roles in life.It assumes that heterosexuality is the only sexual orientation or the only norm, and that sexual and marital relations are most (or only) fitting between people of opposite sex.

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Jerry Burger has conducted research in a number of areas of personality and social psychology. These areas include obedience, compliance, perception of and motivation for personal control, and social norms.