Deconstructing Social Psychology

Name: Deconstructing Social Psychology
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Deconstructing Social PsychologyAuthor(s): Ian Parker, John Shotter\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Psychology Press Ltd\nISBN-13: 9781138844544, 978-1138844544\nSynopsis\nSince the early 1970s, social psychology has been in crisis. At the time Reconstructing Social Psychology (Armistead) provided a critical review of theories and assumptions in the discipline. Originally published in 1990, this title not only updates that review but illustrates the ways in which assumptions had changed at the time. The crisis is no longer seen as one which can be resolved within social psychology itself, but rather as one more deeply rooted in modern society.\n\nThe contributors look at the issues raised by deconstruction in the other human sciences, as well as investigating the claims made by social psychology as a discipline. They examine the rhetoric and texts of social psychology, analysing how the texts which hold the discipline together obtain t.