Social Psychology category: 7378 books
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
A Beginners Guide To Overcoming Social Anxiety! Follow The Principles Within This New Guide And Never Let Anxiety Get The Better Of You Again! Read On To Discover How To Live Your Life Free From Anxiety Starting Today! A large part of nearly everyone's life is, or should be, about interacting with...
Is Shame Necessary?
New Uses for an Old Tool
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
An urgent, illuminating exploration of the social nature of shame and of how it might be used to promote large-scale political change and social reform.
In cultures that champion the individual, guilt is advertised as the cornerstone of conscience. But while guilt holds individuals to personal...
BEYOND SHYNESS: HOW TO CONQUER SOCIAL ANXIETY STEP
How to Conquer Social Anxieties
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
Through interactive exercises and supportive, encouraging words, Beyond Shyness gives shy people a new chance in the social world.
Almost everyone feels shy or slightly stressed in certain kinds of situations -- with new people, on a job interview, or on a first date. Jonathan Berent has helped...
Social Cognition
Selected Works of Susan Fiske
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
In the World Library of Psychologists series, international experts present career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces—extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, and their major practical theoretical contributions.
Susan T. Fiske has an international...
Identity
Sociological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Questions about who we are, who we can be, and who is like and unlike us underpin a vast range of contemporary social issues. What makes our families so important to us? What do the often stark differences between how we self-identify and the way others see and define us reveal about our social world?...
Working in Social Work
The Real World Guide to Practice Settings
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2009
After graduating, students in social work are faced with the daunting and stressful decision of choosing their specialty from the many that are available to them. JessicaRosenberg has designed this guidebook to make this process easier, providing students with real world and practical information...
The Andragogic Learning Center
A Field Study in Social Work Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009
This publication was made possible by the Rector's Fund in support of publications and books, Bar Ilan University, Israel. The Andragogic Learning Center examines an eight-year study at the Bar Ilan School of Social Work, Israel (1989-1997). The study tested the efficacy of an innovative community-based...
by Carolyn Franklin M.A.
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2018
There are two steps to Social Suicide:
Welfare
“Free money” is an addiction; like any drug, the money and assistance are never enough. Society cannot support the exponential increase in the cost of welfare and especially an increase of babies born to single girls. This expenditure takes...
Honor Bound
How a Cultural Ideal Has Shaped the American Psyche
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2016
"Culture of honor" is what social scientists call a society that organizes social life around maintaining and defending reputation. In an honor culture, because reputation is everything, people will go to great lengths to defend their reputations and those of their family members against real and...
Being Unequal
How Identity Helps Make and Break Power and Privilege
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
We may think we control our own destinies, but who we are, how we think, what we feel, and how we act are shaped by multiple, intersecting identities that have different amounts of power and value in our society. Being Unequal explores how identity categories associated with race, class, gender, and...
by Valentin Matcas
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
It is important to study Society in minute details, through its celebrations, indoctrination, and tacit conspiracies that tempt and cover the world, forming this entire social activity that is good and bad, visible and hidden, favorable and unfortunate. It is important to understand how you and the...
The Happiness Effect
How Social Media is Driving a Generation to Appear Perfect at Any Cost
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Sexting. Cyberbullying. Narcissism. Social media has become the dominant force in young people's lives, and each day seems to bring another shocking tale of private pictures getting into the wrong hands, or a lament that young people feel compelled to share their each and every thought with the entire...
by Warren D. TenHouten
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
Founded upon the psychoevolutionary theories of Darwin, Plutchik and Izard, a general socioevolutionary theory of the emotions - affect-spectrum theory - classifies a wide spectrum of the emotions and analyzes them on the sociological, psychological and neurobiological levels.
This neurocognitive...
The Social Insects
Their Origin and Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Originally published in 1928, this volume, by a world authority on the subject, sums up our knowledge of the social insects. It inquires what are the social insects and what it is that makes us call them ‘social’. Terebrantia, aculeata, wasps, bees, ants, and termites are discussed in a succession...