Social Psychology category: 7378 books
Relations and Representations
An introduction to the philosophy of social psychological science
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
What is the nature of social psychological science? What does a realist approach to human behaviour offer?
Originally published in 1991, this lucid introduction to the philosophy of social psychological science takes a new and original approach to the subject. The author repudiates traditional...
Women's Human Rights
A Social Psychological Perspective on Resistance, Liberation, and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
At a United Nations conference in 1995, 189 governments adopted the Beijing Platform for Action, an international agenda for women's equality and a statement of women's rights as human rights. Since that time, violations of women's human rights have become a widely-documented problem across many academic...
Rhetoric, Ideology and Social Psychology
Essays in honour of Michael Billig
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Professor Michael Billig is one of the most significant living figures in social psychology. His work spans thirty-five years, and has at times challenged conventional social scientific thinking on a range of key topics. Billig has influenced a wide range of fields including intergroup conflict, social attitudes and ideology, rhetoric, racism, nati
by Peter Herriot
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
The attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon in the United States of September 11th, 2001 brought the phenomenon of religious fundamentalism to the world's attention.Sociological research has clearly demonstrated that fundamentalists are primarily reacting against modernity, and believe...
Women's Lives
A Psychological Exploration, Fourth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
This cutting-edge and comprehensive fourth edition of Women’s Lives: A Psychological Perspective integrates the most current research and social issues to explore the psychological diversity of girls and women varying in age, ethnicity, social class, nationality, sexual orientation, and ableness....
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Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
Cross-cultural research is now an undeniable part of mainstream psychology and has had a major impact on conceptual models of human behavior. Although it is true that the basic principles of social psychological methodology and data analysis are applicable to cross-cultural research, there are a number...
Ecological Research to Promote Social Change
Methodological Advances from Community Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
During the past quarter century, community psychologists have worked to make relevant contributions to human welfare in community settings and to effect social change. Working with and in schools, neighborhood organizations, religious institutions, social programs, and government agencies, the community...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
Sociocultural psychology is a discipline located at the crossroads between the natural and social sciences and the humanities. This international overview of the field provides an antireductionist and comprehensive account of how experience and behaviour arise from human action with cultural materials...
Cultural Realities of Being
Abstract ideas within everyday lives
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Cultural Realities of Being offers a dialogue between academic activity and everyday lives by providing an interface between several perspectives on human conduct. Very often, academic pursuits are arcane and obscure for ordinary people, this book will attempt to disentangle these dialogues, lifting...
Radical Psychology
Multicultural and Social Justice Decolonization Initiatives
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
Radical Psychology discusses psychological factors that shape multicultural competency and social justice effectiveness, such as implicit and explicit biases, difficulties in accurate self-assessment of cultural competency and social justice skills, and the historical colonial biases that still shape...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Ostracism, Exclusion, and Rejection examines research into the related phenomena of ostracism, exclusion and rejection. Most individuals have experienced both sides of the coin: being ostracized and ostracizing others. People experience mild forms of ostracism on a daily basis, but some endure years...
Life as Theater
A Dramaturgical Sourcebook
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Life as Theater is about understanding people and how the dramaturgical way of thinking helps or hinders such understanding. A volume that has deservedly attained the status of a landmark work, this was the first book to explore systematically the material and subject matter of social psychology from...
The Social Outcast
Ostracism, Social Exclusion, Rejection, and Bullying
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This book focuses on the ubiquitous and powerful effects of ostracism, social exclusion, rejection, and bullying. Human beings are an intrinsically gregarious species. Most of our evolutionary success is no doubt due to our highly developed ability to cooperate and interact with each other. It is...
by Wendy Jones
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
An Austen scholar and therapist reveals Jane Austen's intuitive ability to imbue her characters with hallmarks of social intelligence—and how these beloved works of literature can further illuminate the mind-brain connection.
Why is Jane Austen so phenomenally popular? Why do we read Pride...