Social Distance in Psychology! Each human being has affiliations with his family, his caste, his village, his language group, his religious sect, his nationality and so on. This membership of one's group is basic to our existence. Otherwise we are purushapasus. We become human beings with foresight and understanding, because we are socialized by our parents, our relatives, our teachers [...]
We enter into interpersonal relationships in order to achieve certain ends, probably to secure livelihood or to find a mate or to achieve status or recognition. Thus motives constitute the basis for entering into social relationships. In other words, we cannot understand social interaction if we do not take into account the motivations underlying the interpersonal relationships or group interactions. [...]
An attitude involves belief or disbelief, acceptance or rejection and favouring or not favouring some aspect of the environment. In order to measure attitudes, scales have been constructed consisting of short statements dealing with several aspects of some issue or institution under consideration. The statements involve favourable or unfavourable estimations, acceptance or rejection. Consequently, the central problem of the measurement [...]
