ISBN:
9780415706414
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (186 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Psychology Revivals
Parallel Title:
Print version The Crisis in Modern Social Psychology - and How to End It : and how to end it
DDC:
302.018
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
In the late 1960s a 'crisis' erupted in social psychology, with many social psychologists highly critical of the 'old paradigm', laboratory-experimental approach. Originally published in 1989 The Crisis in Modern Social Psychology was the first book to provide a clear account of the complex body of work that is critical of traditional social psychological approaches. Ian Parker insisted that the 'crisis' was not over, showing how attempts to improve social psychology had failed, and explaining why we need instead a political understanding of social interaction which links research with change
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; The Crisis in Modern Social Psychology; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page ; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part one: 'Crises'; 1 The paradigm crisis; Placing paradigms; Experimentation and ethogenics; Problems: ideology and power; 2 The political crisis; History and power; Psychology and sociology; The individual and the crowd; Social psychology as a discipline; 3 The conceptual crisis; Structuralism, semiology and hermeneutics; The contexts of post-structuralism; Contradictions; Part two: Responses; 4 Ordinary explanation
Description / Table of Contents:
Attribution theoryDeconstructing attribution theory; Deconstructing ethogenic responses; 5 Social representations; 'Social representations'; Sociological representations; Social paradigms; Representation, structure and struggle; 6 Conversation; Readings; Sociality and textuality; Speakers and listeners; Writers and readers; Part three: Alternatives; 7 Culture; Postmodernity and language; Post-politics; 8 Politics; Fatal attraction; Star wars; True stories; Back to the future; Further reading; References; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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