Question

Army recruits are assigned randomly into specific sleeping quarters, where they do a lot of socializing during break time and at night. The political and religious attitudes of the recruits were surveyed before they were assigned sleeping quarters, and then again after several weeks of training. The generals found that the recruits’ political and religious ideas tended to form clusters based on sleeping quarters. Which of the following can best explain this situation?

Answer 1

Dynamic Social Impact Theory (DSIT) states that cultural values and norms of individuals in a group are shaped and influenced by ;

• Strength , the power that a person has in the group to persuade others.
• Immediacy, the distance or proximity that individuals share with each other in a group.
• Number of members, the more the number of members less the influence.

In this scenario the recruits' political and religious ideas tended to form clusters based on sleep quarters because People in close quarters and contact tend to influence each other.