PART ONE
Social, Political Events Between 2010-2020
Introduction
The decade started amongst the shambolic wake of the financial crisis globally and concluded with the United States president's obstruction. Social media usage fueled many protest movements, gathering millions of people worldwide in pursuing mutual goals. Britain saw a new generation of royals emerging. Countries globally passed laws leading to the legalization of equal sex marriage, a beloved baseball team, and the House of Representatives impeached the U.S president. From politics to sports to culture and beyond, the following are 14 achievements, events, memorable moments, and extraordinary tragedies during the 2010s.
Politics and World Events
In September 2011, around 100 people were in New York streets banner. The protesters criticized manipulation of money in politics and income inequality, calling for renovation. Like the Arab Spring, populists came against authoritarian regimes that started a similar year in the Middle East, and the Occupied Wall Street circulated through social media, many people becoming members of the sit-in in Zuccotti Park and launched the same protests country-wide. Three female activists in 2013 began using the hashtag on the internet #BlackLivesMatter, which acquired more attention in 2015 and 2014 when protesting caused various black men murdered by the police. The slogan became prominent and cemented social media's growing responsibility in the current movements all through the decade.
In November 2016, the divided political context came to an end when Donald Trump, the Republican candidate, became the United States 45th president. With his popular slogan and campaign, "Making America Powerful Again," Trump contributed to voters' discontent, targeting the undocumented immigrants, Washington political correctness, and confirmation (Leach et al., 2010). In mid-2016, amongst European refugee crises and a migration debate, Britons voted fifty-two to forty-eight percent, favoring the United Kingdom's withdrawal out of the European Union. The withdrawal deadline extended in various circumstances, as parliament's opposition to a suggested deal led to Theresa May's resignation in 2019. At the end of 2019, a whistleblower complaint in the White House by the Democrat-dominated Representatives House raised an impeachment.
The deadliest disaster of the decade took place in January 2010, when a magnitude 7.0 earthquake hit the island of Hispaniola on January 12. The quake struck Haiti, the poorest country, killing 200000 to 250000 people who affected 3 million following dozens of aftershocks. The disaster derived a global reaction, but the earthquake's significance took place all through the decade as Haiti prolonged the challenging recovery path (Schneider et al., 2010). In 2012, tropical storms and massive hurricanes hit the U.S with sandy, unleashing storm surges and gales in the Northeast. Many people were killed by the storm, causing 70 billion damages. Three hurricanes (Irma, Harvey, and Maria) hit Florida, Texas, and Puerto Rico, five weeks in 2017. Following 9/11, during the second decade, terrorism continued globally. There were Boston Marathon attacks; cafes, music venues, and hotels in France, Paris; surrounded Barcelona streets; a nightclub in Florida, Orlando, and Texas, El Paso, amid others. Horrifying gun violence episodes, such as attacks at Connecticut, Sandy School in Parkland, and others. Used the terrifying semi-atomic weapons in school shootings and ruthless attacks in different venues- out of a movie theater in Colorado, Aurora, to a black chapel in Charleston, the decade advanced for LGBTQ globally, with similar-sex marriage legalization in eighteen countries, amongst France, Ireland, Australia among others. Finally, saw Simone Bile's rise in the 2010s, the talented gymnast who won gold medals at the 2016 Olympics (Baylis, 2020).
PART TWO
How do These Events connect with Psychology?
2020 provided a significant analysis of race about epistemic violence and objectivity; mainstream psychological research on race might play an essential role in combating racist acts, attitudes, and policies in pursuit of reforms. I argue that such research in this comment is not likely to unseat, explicate or diminish the scientific racism traditions in psychology and unlikely to lower the forms of epistemological violence. Scientific psychology outlived a century of formulated critics from non-othered and othered, outside and inside the discipline. These critics of both methods and conceptualizations addressed the use of brain size measurements, racial categories, inherited quotients, intelligence quotes, and crime statistics, in addition to oppressive and damaging data uses (Hammack & Pilecki, 2012).
Political psychology is a social scientific inquiry originating from psychology and political science and connected to other social sciences, including economics, education, sociology, business, communication, etc. Political psychologists illuminate significant dynamic global phenomena that enhance fundamental theories development and yield valuable information on social relations and cognitive processes; this work helps us know why political events turn out as they do. Political psychologists collect knowledge on origins, psychological underpinnings, and the impact of political behavior, creating a new theory to establish psychological accounts of political phenomena (Schmid & Muldoon, 2015). Social psychology history includes the study of group behavior, attitudes, aggression and altruism, prejudice, culture, and many others. Social psychologists study global challenges using a scientific approach.
Personality psychology focuses on characteristics, individual traits, and thoughts; social psychologists are interested in the significance of group interactions and social interactions on behaviors and attitudes. The research performed by social psychologists has a strong influence on our knowledge, well-being, and mental health. The Holocaust horrors made researchers study conformity, social impact, and obedience; through investigation, psychologists gained a greater understanding of societal power such as compliance, authority, and obedience. Social psychology has grown all through the 20th century, inspiring research that has led to our knowledge of behavior and social experience (Hodgetts et al., 2020).
Theories explain different issues; for example, the evolution theory helps explain relationships between species, humans' origin, and species changes over time. Psychology deals with thoughts and abstract phenomena, and most psychological thoughts are theories because it is impossible to create scientific laws about the same psychological issues and behavior. Many psychological concepts documented that they increase to the level of view. Examples of psychological theories; Behaviorism theory states that everything done by living organisms can be interfered with by the environment. Attachment theory- the idea that premature attachments impact the future and separate windows in which extensions are easy to develop. Most scientific research bodies change following the new evidence.
In conclusion, cultural patterns and historical ideas are highlighted in this review; three insights on racism psychology include examining racism globally daily through our selections and preferences. We maintain daily contexts on racism; we inhabit worlds culturally by promoting racialized ways of being in, seeing, and acting globally.
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