Social Psychology category: 7378 books
Self Continuity
Individual and Collective Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2010
This volume is the first to bring together the fast-growing research on self-continuity from multiple perspectives within and beyond social psychology.
The book covers individual and collective aspects of self-continuity, while a final section explores the relationship between these two forms....
The Drama of Social Life
Essays in Post-modern Social Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
These essays explore the many ways theater and dramaturgy are used to shape the everyday experience of people in mass societies. Young argues that technologies combine with the world of art, music, and cinema to shape consciousness as a commodity and to fragment social relations in the market as well...
The Crisis of Psychoanalysis
Essays on Freud, Marx and Social Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
This book brings together Erich Fromm’s basic statements on the application of psychoanalytic theory to social dynamics. At the same time it offers an image of man consonant with the hopes of radical humanism.
The Crisis of Psychoanalysis is a collection of nine brilliant essays. Although his...
The Witch-Hunt Narrative
Politics, Psychology, and the Sexual Abuse of Children
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
In the 1980s, a series of child sex abuse cases rocked the United States. The most famous case was the 1984 McMartin preschool case, but there were a number of others as well. By the latter part of the decade, the assumption was widespread that child sex abuse had become a serious problem in America....
Utopic Dreams and Apocalyptic Fantasies
Critical Approaches to Researching Video Game Play
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2010
Few books have attempted to contextualize the importance of video game play with a critical social, cultural and political perspective that raises the question of the significance of work, pleasure, fantasy and play in the modern world. The study of why video game play is 'fun' has often been relegated...
Human Behavior and Social Environments
A Biopsychosocial Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2001
Human behavior is a subject so vast that it would seem to defy one's ability to comfortably and confidently grasp its varieties, nuances, shapes, and dynamics. But in this wide-ranging and comprehensive survey of the contexts of human behavior, Dennis Saleebey examines the different social science...
Relational Being
Beyond Self and Community
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2009
This book builds on two current developments in psychology scholarship and practice. The first centers on broad discontent with the individualist tradition in which the rational agent, or autonomous self, is considered the fundamental atom of social life. Critique of individualism spring not only...
by Michael Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
It is always enlightening to inquire about the origins of a research en deavor or a particular theoretical approach. Beginning with the observa tion of the mental life of the infant in 1962, Michael Lewis has contrib uted to the change in the view of the infant as an insensate mass of confusion...
How to Rethink Human Behavior
A Practical Guide to Social Contextual Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Developed from the author’s long teaching career, How to Rethink Human Behavior aims to cultivate practical skills in human observation and analysis, rather than offer a catalogue of immutable ‘facts’. It synthesizes key psychological concepts with insights from other disciplines, including...
Leadership and Power
Identity Processes in Groups and Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2004
Leadership and associated power issues lie at the core of group life in a variety of contexts. Even the most informal of groups typically have some form of leadership in their organization, and the understanding of leadership and power from a psychological standpoint can inform a greater understanding...
The Social Validity Manual
A Guide to Subjective Evaluation of Behavior Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Applied Behavior Analysis is the science of applying experimentally derived principles of behavior to improve socially significant behavior. The research and application of ABA contributes to a wide range of practical areas, including AIDS prevention, education, gerontology, language acquisition and...
Microaggression Theory
Influence and Implications
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Get to know the sociopolitical context behind microaggressions
Microaggressions are brief, everyday exchanges that send denigrating messages to certain individuals because of their group membership (e.g., race, gender, culture, religion, social class, sexual orientation, etc.). These daily,...
Happier?
The History of a Cultural Movement That Aspired to Transform America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
When a cultural movement that began to take shape in the mid-twentieth century erupted into mainstream American culture in the late 1990s, it brought to the fore the idea that it is as important to improve one's own sense of pleasure as it is to manage depression and anxiety. Cultural historian Daniel...
The Dialogical Mind
Common Sense and Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Dialogue has become a central theoretical concept in human and social sciences as well as in professions such as education, health, and psychotherapy. This 'dialogical turn' emphasises the importance of social relations and interaction to our behaviour and how we make sense of the world; hence the...