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Strengths and Weaknesses
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Strengths
The approach has demonstrated the strong effect of social influences on people’s behaviour.
The approach has explained many phenomena. For example Why the Nazis obeyed Hitler.
Wide applications
Scientific Methodology
Weaknesses
Reductionism. This area fails to acknowledge the role of individual differences within a social setting.
Unethical. It has been argued that some research has been unethical
