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1 What is social behavior?
in sociology, social behavior has both social meaning and social context. In a sociological hierarchy, social behavior is followed by social actions, which are directed at other people and are designed to induce a response. Further along this ascending scale are social interaction and social relation. Some specific social behaviors include, but aren’t limited to, aggression, altruism, scapegoating, and shyness.

2 Emotional behavior is a form of social behavior that causes individuals to behave emotionally within groups and individually. This type of behavior expresses emotions such as excitement, fear, joy, anger, anxiety and sorrow. Violent and aggressive behavior commonly happens in crowds or groups. This occurs when certain individuals within a group act violently or aggressively, and others copy the behavior. The pressure to conform to the actions of the group normalizes the behavior. This type of behavior is common during instances of looting and rioting. Prosocial behavior is a social behavior that is viewed as altruistic. This type of behavior consists in helping others through selfless actions. For instance, prosocial behavior occurs when an individual helps another without expecting an action in return. Group action is a social behavior that occurs when people gather in large groups and attempt to change a particular aspect of society. Group action has a particular purpose, which influences behaviors both negatively and positively.

3 Social vs. Nonsocial  What differentiates social from nonsocial behavior, then, is whether another self is taken into account in one's acts, actions, or practices. For example, dodging and weaving through a crowd is not social behavior, usually. Others are considered as mere physical objects, as human barriers with certain reflexes. Neither is keeping in step in a parade social behavior. Other marchers are physical objects with which to coordinate one's movements. Neither is a surgical operation social behavior. The patient is only a biophysical object with certain associated potentialities and dispositions. However, let the actor become involved with another's self, as a person pushing through a crowd recognizing a friend, a marcher believing another is trying to get him out of step, or a surgeon operating on his son, and the whole meaning of the situation changes.


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