Socail Psychology

Socail Psychology:

Social psychology is a discipline that uses scientific methods "to understand and explain how the thought, feeling and behavior of individuals are influenced by the actual, imagined or implied presence of other human beings" 
The social sciences are dedicated to understanding the human condition, ideally to the extent that the singular and collective behaviors of human beings can be understood and even predicted. Though their goals are identical in the abstract, these "sciences" differ in terms of their way of looking at things, the questions they ask, the methods they use in addressing these questions, and what they do with this information once they obtain it.
It is for these reasons that sociologically-inclined social psychologists are more likely to examine how individuals' perceptions, belief systems, moralities, identities, and behaviors are determined by their positions in social space:

• the culture of their primary socializations;
• the slice of social history intersecting their biographies, such as coming of age during a time of depression or war;
• their locations within the stratification orders of gender, age, race, and social class;
• their roles within the institutional orders of religion, work, community, and family;
• the geographic context of their childhoods, such as region of the country or the size of cities wherein they lived;
• and their memberships in and relative identifications with various social groups.