As defined by researchgate.net, Social sensitivity is the personal ability to perceive and understand the feelings and viewpoints of others.
Contents
- 1 How do you show social sensitivity?
- 2 What are social sensitivities?
- 3 What is an example of social sensitivity?
- 4 What is a socially sensitive topic?
- 5 What is cultural and social sensitivity?
- 6 Why is it showing sensitivity is important?
- 7 What is meant by socially sensitive or taboo research?
- 8 What is meant by social sensitivity in the curriculum development process?
- 9 How do you demonstrate cultural sensitivity?
- 10 What is socially sensitive in psychology?
- 11 What is a social situation in sociology?
- 12 What is ethnocentrism in social psychology?
- 13 What is social sensitivity research?
- 14 Who defined social sensitive research and when?
- 15 Why is socially sensitive research bad?
It is possible to become more socially sensitive. One of the ways you can do this involves practicing mindfulness. Being mindful involves focusing on being aware of your surroundings and other people, in a manner where you pay close attention to what is being said or done.
Social sensitivity is the personal ability to perceive, understand, and respect the feelings and viewpoints of others, and it is reliably measurable.
An example of someone with high social sensitivity would be a person who understands conversational cues and stops talking in order to listen at the appropriate time.
research on topics likely to evoke controversy in the community or strong emotional responses from participants.
Being culturally sensitive implies that social workers are not only aware of differences, but they are respectful and accepting of the difference. They do not judge differences as good or bad. They strive to understand differences from an emic, within culture, perspective.
Why is it showing sensitivity is important?
Cultural sensitivity is important because it allows us to effectively function in other cultures, allows us to respect and value other cultures, and can reduce cultural barriers between professionals and their patients.
Socially sensitive research is a term that refers to any psychological research that has ethical. implications that go beyond the research situation and affect people or groups in the wider. society.
SOCIAL SENSITIVITY Social sensitivity describes the proficiency at which an individual can identify, perceive, and understand cues and contexts in social interactions along with being socially respectful to others.
How do you demonstrate cultural sensitivity?
Use these tips from the American Psychological Association to be more culturally aware:
- Think beyond race and ethnicity. A person’s culture is shaped by more than the color of their skin or the way that they dress.
- Learn by asking.
- Make local connections.
- Pay attention to non-verbal behaviors.
- Exchange stories.
Sieber and Stanley (1988) used the term social sensitivity to describe studies where there are potential social consequences for the participants or the group of people represented by the research.
A social situation is an emergent configura- tion of people, culture traits, specific meanings, relationships, time and place, and dynamic processes such as adjustment, interaction, social control, social changes, and readjustment.
Ethnocentrism is a response to the threat to the existence of one’s own ethnic group as an independent sociocultural whole and fulfills the function of providing social-psychological protec- tion of a particular ethnic group from heterocultural influences when ethnic groups have failed to adapt to one another.
Socially sensitive research includes studies in which there are potential consequences or implications, either directly for the participants in the research or for the class of individuals represented by the research.
Sieber and Stanley (1988) used the term social sensitivity to describe studies where there are potential social consequences for the participants or the group of people represented by the research.
The danger of attributing the cause of behaviour to individual factors is that it can lead to socially sensitive research as the implications of findings could suggest that a person’s race, age, gender or disability cause behaviours. This can cause social stigmas and discrimination.
