ISBN:
9780761907466
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (488 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Social Psychology
DDC:
300
Keywords:
Social psychology
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
The Eighth Edition of this classic text provides a basic introduction to the field of social psychology. Taking a critical symbolic interactionist approach, Social Psychology helps students understand the very nature of how individuals do things together in today's society. The book has been significantly revised taking into consideration a number of recent turns in the field, such as: the increased sense that American social psychology is deeply embedded in world culture; that postmodernism has much to offer the sudy of the social world; and that new theories on sexuality, ident
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Preface; Part I - THE SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL IMAGINATION; Chapter 1 - The Field of Social Psychology; A Definition of the Field; The Existential Focus; The Narrative Turn in Social Psychology; Basic Social Processes; The Social Psychological Imagination; Symbolic Interactionism; Key Terms; Communication as Culture; Gendered Identities; What Symbolic Interactionists Do Not Like; Behaviorism and Mind-Body Dualism; Interpretive Versus Cognitive Social Psychologies; CONCLUSION; SUGGESTED READINGS; STUDY QUESTIONS; Chapter 2 - Primate Visions and Human Symbolic Behavior
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The Evolutionary Setting of Human BehaviorThe Evolution of Social Behavior; Sociobiology; The Behavior of Chimpanzees; The History of Primate Research, Sociobiology, and Chimp Language Studies; Symbolic Environments and Cognitive Structures; Social Worlds, Symbolic Coordinates, and Fictions; CONCLUSION; SUGGESTED READINGS; STUDY QUESTIONS; Part II - SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND LANGUAGE; Chapter 3 - The Nature of Language; Semiotics and Symbolic Interactionism; The Categorical, or Language, Attitude; The Nature of Language: Signs and Symbols; Internalized Speech and Thought
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The Metaphysics of PresenceSpeech as Discourse; CONCLUSION; SUGGESTED READINGS; STUDY QUESTIONS; Chapter 4 - Language, Groups, and Social Structure; Consensus and Human Groups; Listening and Comprehending; Language and the Social Structure of Thought; Symbolic Behavior as Shared Behavior; Humor, Interaction, and the Resources of Language; Daydreaming and Dreaming; Metaphor, Analogy, Flexibility of Thought, and Metonymy; CONCLUSION; SUGGESTED READINGS; STUDY QUESTIONS; Chapter 5 - Emotions and the Naming Process; The Body and Pain; Emotional Experience; The Linguistic Aspect of Human Emotions
Description / Table of Contents:
Emotion as Symbolic InteractionInterpreting Drug Experiences; Madness, the Uncanny, and Aphasia; Alzheimer's Disease; Body Images and Medicine; Opiate and Other Addictions; CONCLUSION; SUGGESTED READINGS; STUDY QUESTIONS; Chapter 6 - Perception, Memory, Motives, and Accounts; Preliminary Considerations; Activity Theory; Three Views of Motivation and Action; Social Patterning of Perception; Perception, Language, and Groups; The Social Basis of Memory; Human Remembering as a Symbolic Process; The Planning of Behavior; Motives, Activities, and Accounts; CONCLUSION; SUGGESTED READINGS
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STUDY QUESTIONSPart III - CHILDHOOD SOCIALIZATION; Chapter 7 - Learning Language in Early Childhood; Instrumental Use of Gestures; Learning to Use and Comprehend Symbols; Declarative and Manipulative Functions of Language; Theories of Language Acquisition; The Learning of Concepts; Reasoning and Child Development; CONCLUSION; SUGGESTED READINGS; STUDY QUESTIONS; Chapter 8 - The Development of Self; Language, Performance, and Human Nature; Self and Identity; Socialization and Interaction; The Concept of Self; Social Constructionism, Essentialism, and Identity Politics
Description / Table of Contents:
Theories of Agency and Action
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