Social Psychology category: 7378 books
Race, Colour and the Processes of Racialization
New Perspectives from Group Analysis, Psychoanalysis and Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Is racial conflict determined by biology or society?
So many conflicts appear to be caused by racial and ethnic differences; for example, the cities of Britain and America are regularly affected by race riots. It is argued by socio-biologists and some schools of psychoanalysis that our instincts are...
The Political Imaginary of Sexual Freedom
Subjectivity and Power in the New Sexual Democratic Turn
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
This book develops a performative and relational approach to gendered and sexualised bodies conceived as distinct from the more limited individualistic idea of sexual identity and orientation that is at play within notions of progress in contemporary transnational sexual politics. Focusing on the...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
Rapid technological change, global competition, and economic uncertainty have all contributed to organizations seeking to improve creativity and innovation. Researchers and businesses want to know what factors facilitate or inhibit creativity in a variety of organizational settings. Individual Creativity...
The World of Bereavement
Cultural Perspectives on Death in Families
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
This visionary work explores the sensitive balance between the personal and private aspects of grief, the social and cultural variables that unite communities in bereavement, and the universal experience of loss. Its global journey takes readers into the processes of coping, ritual, and belief across...
by Peter Warr
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Award-winning psychologist Peter Warr explores why some people at work are happier or unhappier than others. He evaluates different approaches to the definition and assessment of happiness, and combines environmental and person-based themes to explain differences in people’s experience. A framework...
by Joel Cooper, Shane Blackman, Kyle Keller
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
The Science of Attitudes is the first book to integrate classic and modern research in the field of attitudes at a scholarly level. Designed primarily for advanced undergraduates and graduate students, the presentation of research will also be useful for current scholars in all disciplines who are...
Stigma
A Social Psychological Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
First published in 1982. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Gay and Lesbian Aging
Research and Future Directions
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2003
The year 2003 marks the 30th anniversary of the landmark "declassification" of homosexuality as a disease by the American Psychiatric Association--a watershed in the lives of gays and lesbians in the United States. For the first time in history, a generation of self-identified lesbians,...
Understanding Group Behavior
Volume 1: Consensual Action By Small Groups; Volume 2: Small Group Processes and Interpersonal Relations
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
These books grew out of the perception that a number of important conceptual and theoretical advances in research on small group behavior had developed in recent years, but were scattered in rather fragmentary fashion across a diverse literature. Thus, it seemed useful to encourage the formulation...
The Interpersonal Dynamics of Emotion
Toward an Integrative Theory of Emotions as Social Information
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Emotions are an elemental part of life - they imbue our existence with meaning and purpose, and influence how we engage with the world around us. But we do not just feel our own emotions; we typically express them in the presence of other people. How do our emotional expressions affect others? Moving...
Researcher Race
Social Constructions in the Research Process
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Researcher Race: Social Constructions in the Research Process is designed to expose the role of researcher race in social science research. This book highlights the interaction of researcher and participant race in shaping data that is collected. Researcher Race makes the researcher’s position visible...
The Science of Sin
Why We Do The Things We Know We Shouldn't
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
'Entertaining and enlightening ... offers ways to temper our anti-social tendencies.' Dr Michael Mosley, science journalist and TV presenter
It can often seem that we are utterly surrounded by temptation, from the ease of online shopping and the stream of targeted advertising encouraging us...
by Lewis R. Aiken
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2000
This book is a brief but comprehensive survey of research, writings, and professional practices concerned with death and dying. It is interdisciplinary and eclectic--medical, psychological, religious, philosophical, artistic, demographics, bereavement, and widowhood are all considered--but with an...
Identity and Participation in Culturally Diverse Societies
A Multidisciplinary Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
Identity and Participation in Culturally Diverse Societies presents an original discussion in an edited volume of how the links between identity, political participation, radicalization, and integration can provide a scientific understanding of the complex issue of coexistence between groups in culturally...