Perspectives on Social Psychology - 9781138501324

Name: Perspectives on Social Psychology - 9781138501324
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Perspectives on Social PsychologyA Psychology of Human Being\nAuthor(s): Wendy Stainton Rogers\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138501324, 978-1138501324\nSynopsis\nThis groundbreaking new textbook takes a different perspective on social psychology, focused on the social and cultural worlds we inhabit, and encompassing a wide range of core social psychology topics from the self to relationships, gender to health, racism to mental distress. Taking a critical approach, this book explores how qualitative methods and interpretational analyses can be used to examine human behaviour and what it is like living in todays media-led world. It explicitly challenges all forms of Othering, taking a fresh look at human values, embodiment, agency, communication, thinking and feeling. It goes beyond the individualising scientific approach taken by traditional psychology, instead concentrating on the psychology of what makes us.