Social Psychology category: 7378 books
by Carlos A. Cuevas, Callie Marie Rennison
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
The Wiley Handbook on the Psychology of Violence features a collection of original readings, from an international cast of experts, that explore all major issues relating to the psychology of violence and aggressive behaviors.
Features original contributions from an interdisciplinary cast of...
Madness Is Civilization
When the Diagnosis Was Social, 1948-1980
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
In the 1960s and 1970s, a popular diagnosis for America’s problems was that society was becoming a madhouse. In this intellectual and cultural history, Michael E. Staub examines a time when many believed insanity was a sane reaction to obscene social conditions, psychiatrists were agents of repression,...
Microaggressions in Everyday Life
Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
Praise for Microaggressions in Everyday Life
"In a very constructive way, Dr. Sue provides time-tested psychological suggestions to make our society free of microaggressions. It is a brilliant resource and ideal teaching tool for all those who wish to alter the forces that promote pain...
A Life Worth Living
Contributions to Positive Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2006
A Life Worth Living brings together the latest thought on Positive Psychology from an international cast of scholars. It includes historical, philosophical, and empirical reviews of what psychologists have found to matter for personal happiness and well-being. The contributions to this volume agree...
Communities of Practice
Learning, Meaning, and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 1999
This book presents a theory of learning that starts with the assumption that engagement in social practice is the fundamental process by which we get to know what we know and by which we become who we are. The primary unit of analysis of this process is neither the individual nor social institutions,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
Many would like to believe we are living as "post-racial" America, long past the days of discrimination and marginalization of people simply due to their race and minority status. However, editor Jennifer L. Martin and a breadth of expert contributors show that prejudice and discrimination are still...
Social Influence on Close Relationships
Beyond the Dyad
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
How do we choose a partner to initiate a relationship with, and what makes us stay in a given relationship over time? These questions are most often pursued by scholars with an emphasis on the internal thoughts, feelings, and motivations of individual decision-makers. Conversely, this volume highlights...
Solitary Action
Acting on Our Own in Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
From a private nature walk to an engrossing novel, humans spend a vast amount of time engaged in solitary activities. However, despite the fact that individual activities are a prevalent part of everyday life, most scholarly research has been devoted to social interaction rather than solitary action....
Psychology from the Standpoint of the Subject
Selected Writings of Klaus Holzkamp
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
This book introduces the groundbreaking work of the German critical psychologist Klaus Holzkamp. In contrast to contemporary psychology's worldlessness, the writings present a concept of psychology based on the individual's relations to the world and open up new perspectives on human subjectivity, agency and the conduct of everyday life.
A Practical Guide to Family Psychology
You've had a baby - now what?
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Based on practical, clinically proven, and tried-and-tested approaches, Introducing Family Psychology - A Practical Guide looks at fifteen major problems that are typically encountered by families.
Introducing Family Psychology - A Practical Guide provides workable solutions based on experiences...
Virtuous Violence
Hurting and Killing to Create, Sustain, End, and Honor Social Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
What motivates violence? How can good and compassionate people hurt and kill others or themselves? Why are people much more likely to kill or assault people they know well, rather than strangers? This provocative and radical book shows that people mostly commit violence because they genuinely feel...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2001
With a list of contributors that reads like a "Who's Who" of political psychology, this comprehensive volume introduces the major concepts, debates, and themes in the field and provides an overview of its intellectual development, its disparate parts, the major controversies and some suggestions for the future direction of the field.
On New Shores
Understanding Immigrant Fathers in North America
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
Over the past several decades, researchers as well as social policymakers and educators have acknowledged the importance that fathers play in their children's lives. A good deal of research on fathering has been conducted among Euro-American families in North America. However, our understanding of...
Getting Darwin Wrong
Why Evolutionary Psychology Won't Work
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Brendan Wallace, with a background in psychology, demonstrates that the key claims of Evolutionary Psychology (EP), popularised by Steven Pinker and others, are based on the 'brain is a digital computer' argument. He then argues that as we now know this model of the brain will not work, therefore EP...