Social Psychology category: 7378 books
by Claude M. Steele
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
The acclaimed social psychologist offers an insider’s look at his research and groundbreaking findings on stereotypes and identity.
Claude M. Steele, who has been called “one of the few great social psychologists,” offers a vivid first-person account of the research that supports his...
A Paradise Built in Hell
The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
The author of Men Explain Things to Me explores the moments of altruism and generosity that arise in the aftermath of disaster
Why is it that in the aftermath of a disaster? whether manmade or natural?people suddenly become altruistic, resourceful, and brave? What makes the newfound communities...
Connected
The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2009
Celebrated scientists Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler explain the amazing power of social networks and our profound influence on one another's lives.
Your colleague's husband's sister can make you fat, even if you don't know her. A happy neighbor has more impact on your happiness than...
by V.L. Mission
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Do you desire to learn more about how the Internet, modern day technology and how multimedia can benefit your advocacy work, your worthy cause, or your not-for-profit organization?
Do you want to change the world?
Do you need to increase awareness about your worthy cause?
Are you wondering...
Trauma
A Social Theory
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
In this book Jeffrey C. Alexander develops an original social theory of trauma and uses it to carry out a series of empirical investigations into social suffering around the globe.
Alexander argues that traumas are not merely psychological but collective experiences, and that trauma work plays...
by Frederick Walborn
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
Religion in Personality Theory makes clear the link between theory and research and personality and religion. Presently, most personality texts have a limited discussion of religion and reference few theorists other than Freud and Maslow in relation to the subject. This book reviews the theory and...
by Sigmund Freud
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2004
Freud's religious unbeliefs are too easily dismissed as the standard scientific rationalism of the twentieth-century intellectual, yet he scorned the high-minded humanism of his contemporaries. In Mass Psychology and Analysis of the 'I' he explores the notion of 'mass-psychology' - his findings would...
Unity and Fragmentation in Psychology
The Philosophical and Methodological Roots of the Discipline
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Psychology has always defined itself as a science and yet it has lacked the theoretical and methodological unity regarded as characteristic of the natural sciences. Nicolò Gaj explores the topical question of unification in psychology, setting out a conceptual framework for considerations of unity...
Applied Psychology
Actively Caring for People
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
This volume demonstrates how readers can become more effective parents, teachers, students, coaches, managers, or work supervisors, while also gaining practical skills to enhance their self-motivation, communication skills, and intervention acumen. The first eight chapters explain evidence-based principles...
Strange Contagion
Inside the Surprising Science of Infectious Behaviors and Viral Emotions and What They Tell Us About Ourselves
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Picking up where The Tipping Point leaves off, respected journalist Lee Daniel Kravetz’s Strange Contagion is a provocative look at both the science and lived experience of social contagion.
In 2009, tragedy struck the town of Palo Alto: A student from the local high school had died by suicide...
Learning to Change Lives
The Strategies and Skills Learning and Development Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
The Strategies and Skills Learning and Development (SSLD) system is an action-oriented model for enabling clients in social work, health, mental health, and human services settings to address their needs and life goals. In Learning to Change Lives, author A. Ka Tat Tsang introduces SSLD’s powerful...
by Steve Chapman, Katherine Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
Exam Board: OCR
Level: AS/A-level
Subject: Sociology
First Teaching: September 2015
First Exam: Summer 2016
Reinforce your understanding throughout the course with our Student Guides. They provide clear topic summaries with sample questions and model answers that will help to improve exam technique...
by Steve Chapman, Katherine Roberts, Lesley Connor
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Exam Board: OCR
Level: AS/A-level
Subject: Sociology
First Teaching: September 2015
First Exam: June 2016
Reinforce your understanding throughout the course with our Student Guides. They provide clear topic summaries with sample questions and model answers that will help to improve exam technique...
by Steve Chapman
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Exam Board: OCR
Level: AS/A-level
Subject: Sociology
First Teaching: September 2015
First Exam: Summer 2016
Reinforce your understanding throughout the course with our Student guides. They provide clear topic summaries with sample questions and model answers that will help to improve exam technique...