Social Psychology category: 7378 books
Peace Education
The Concept, Principles, and Practices Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2005
Peace Education:
* presents views on the nature of peace education, its history, and relationships to neighboring fields;
* examines relevant psychological and pedagogical principles, such as the contact experience, conciliation through personal story telling, reckoning with traumatic memories, body-work,...
The Crowd
A Study of the Popular Mind
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016
The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind is a brilliant treatise on the workings of crowds. Gustave Le Bon examines many different kinds of crowds and how they work. He differentiates between different kinds of crowds such as mobs, juries, elected bodies, and simple crowds. This landmark book is one...
by Mark Allen, Dr Paul McCarthy
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
The Psychology Express undergraduate revision guide series will help you understand key concepts quickly, revise effectively and make your answers stand out.
Social Work and Disadvantage
Addressing the Roots of Stigma Through Association
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2006
This book is a guide to understanding the important issue of stigma - `associated disadvantage' - which affects not only those who are excluded from society, but also family members and friends. Social Work and Disadvantage explains the impact of stigmatization on siblings, families and workers in the...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
Providing a comprehensive perspective on human desire, this volume brings together leading experts from multiple psychological subdisciplines. It addresses such key questions as how desires of different kinds emerge, how they influence judgment and decision making, and how problematic desires can...
by vito grigorov
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Can it be that you only have 5 years left to live?
Studies show only 1 hour daily is free to do what you want to do, and the rest you must do: Sleep, work, eat, email. On average, only 12% of our lifetime is actually free. Sound nice? No, but what's the alternative?
Have you ever asked...
The Lonely American
Drifting Apart in the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
In today's world, it is more acceptable to be depressed than to be lonely-yet loneliness appears to be the inevitable byproduct of our frenetic contemporary lifestyle. According to the 2004 General Social Survey, one out of four Americans talked to no one about something of importance to them during...
A Most Human Enterprise
Controversies in the Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
A Most Human Enterprise looks at controversial social science research methods and their effects on subjects and researchers. In detailing case studies in which plagiarism was alleged, subjects were mislead or seriously abused, and research denigrated certain demographics, Donald O. Granberg and John...
Race, Racism and Psychology
Towards a Reflexive History
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
This book offers a comprehensive overview of the ways in which Psychology has engaged with 'race' and racism issues since the late 19th century. It emphasizes the complexities and convolutions of the story and attempts to elucidate the subtleties and occasional paradoxes that have arisen as a result.
This...
by Gerald Matthews, Ian J. Deary, Martha C. Whiteman
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
Now in its third edition, this dynamic textbook analyses the traits fundamental to human personality: what they are, why they matter, their biological and social foundations, how they play out in human life and their consequences for cognition, stress and physical and mental health. The text also...
VISIONS 2100
Stories from Your Future
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Stories from Your Future The complex issue of climate change is one that our race is struggling to address. The solutions are not beyond us in any way. Technological solutions exist, scientific knowledge is plentiful, the world can afford the transition but still significant action eludes us. Rational...
Up Against the Wall
Re-Imagining the U.S.-Mexico Border
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
As increasing global economic disparities, violence, and climate change provoke a rising tide of forced migration, many countries and local communities are responding by building walls—literal and metaphorical—between citizens and newcomers. Up Against the Wall: Re-imagining the U.S.-Mexico Border...
Psychoanalysis in Social Research
Shifting theories and reframing concepts
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
The use of psychoanalytic ideas to explore social and political questions is not new. Freud began this work himself and social research has consistently drawn on his ideas. This makes perfect sense. Social and political theory must find ways to conceptualise the relation between human subjects and...
Neuroscience and Critique
Exploring the Limits of the Neurological Turn
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Recent years have seen a rapid growth in neuroscientific research, and an expansion beyond basic research to incorporate elements of the arts, humanities and social sciences. It has been suggested that the neurosciences will bring about major transformations in the understanding of ourselves, our...