Tuesday, February 21, 2012

society did it, why cant septa?

By Robert Wall
   Group behavior is to act a certain way with others that have the same values, beliefs, and norms. In the context of being a septa participant why is that the public obeys the septa bus driver and conform to certain behaviors; it’s because no matter how hard people try to consciously make choices people unconsciously obey people of hierarchy. For example, when the bus becomes crowded a few front seats are given up to the elderly even though younger people pay the base fare andelderly pay no fare; thus it’s abnormal not to let an elderly person rest showing if one person can give up a seat “we all can” per say nomatter what age (non-elderly), race, sex, or economic status. Furthermore, when failing to obey the septa rules you are to adhere to the septa bus driver since he is the hierarchy figure for that momentof that bus in which society pays to keep moving.
    In the amidst of listening to music without headphones in public facilities that is considered abnormal, and because everyone exhibits the same behavior using headphones makes that behavior socialized and normalized creating new societal norms, so without a doubt “the rest will follow.” Behaviors expressed in groups are often uncontrollable since the brain is really unconscious while observing others behaviors via learning and understanding those behaviors. It is a societal norm to let women enter the public transit bus before men letting us know what chivalry and respect is for women. For instance, when the septa bus pulls up to its pertaining address to let tax payers on one man lets a lady come before him and so the rest come running behind similar to the way the men wait instead of breaking the formal chain of women showing our obedience levels and group behavior. In these cases, septa is generally the hierarchy figures figuratively, second the septa bus driver, and finally the ideal “man."
    Society may not notice these group behaviors as showing obedience such as giving up public seats, illustrating chivalry, and using headphones in public because at the moment it is no thought of as this. So group behaviors most of the time can’t be controlled, nor obedience if the authority figure has or plays a certain role, but the behavior within the context or content of the group may be change depending on what variables affect them. Group behaviors are almost unconscious and are seen by people everyday like the behavior of students under the professors eyewatch or observation. Septa made consumers of them more obedient by implementing laws just as America did 400 years ago and through group behavior that is how the more general conform to certain behaviors within a group.

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