Social Psychology Matters

Social Psychology Matters explores the significance of social psychology in the twenty-first century and the important contribution it can and does make to understanding ourselves and others in today’s world. This book is designed to help the reader navigate the complex and ever-changing nature of the discipline and gain an overview of the key concepts, methods and theories.
 The authors adopt a broad approach to trace the roots and legacies of social psychology with a keen eye to the future. Each chapter provides an in-depth look at a social psychological topic of significance, ranging from self and conflict to families and embodiment. 
 Four theoretical perspectives – cognitive social, discursive psychological, phenomenological and social psychoanalytic – enable students to critically analyse social psychological research. 
 These perspectives are interpreted through the interrogative themes of: 
<ul>
<li>Individual–society dualism </li>
<li>Agency–structure dualism </li>
<li>Situated knowledges </li>
<li>Power relations</li>
</ul>
 This stimulating and accessible text uses real-life experience to demonstrate why social psychology matters and how our understanding of these topics can be continually enhanced and constructively applied.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Hollway,Wendy

Lucey,Helen

Phoenix,Ann

Mental Health

Open University Press

Psychology & Counseling

Changing the Subject

Changing the Subject is a classic critique of traditional psychology in which the foundations of critical and feminist psychology are laid down. Pioneering and foundational, it is still the groundbreaking text crucial to furthering the new psychology in both teaching and research. Now reissued with a new foreword describing the changes which have taken place over the last few years, Changing the Subject will continue to have a significant impact on thinking about psychology and social theory.

Changing the Subject: Psychology, Social Regulation and Subjectivity

Henriques, Julian

Urwin, Cathy

Venn, Couze

Walkerdine, Valerie

Routledge

The Capacity to Care: Gender and Ethical Subjectivity (Women and Psychology)

Wendy Hollway explores a subject that is largely absent from the topical literature on care. Humans are not born with a capacity to care, and this volume explores how this capacity is achieved through the experiences of primary care, gender development and later, parenting. In this book, the author addresses the assumption that the capacity to care is innate. She argues that key processes in the early development of babies and young children create the capability for individuals to care, with a focus on the role of intersubjective experience and parent-child relations. The Capacity to Care also explores the controversial belief that women are better at caring than men and questions whether this is likely to change with contemporary shifts in parenting and gender relations. Similarly, the sensitive domain of the quality of care and how to consider whether care has broken down are also debated, alongside a consideration of what constitutes a ‘good enough’ family. The Capacity to Care provides a unique theorization of the nature of selfhood, drawing on developmental and object relations psychoanalysis, as well as philosophical and feminist literatures. It will be of relevance to social scientists studying gender development, gender relations and the family as well as those interested in the ethics of care debate.

Wendy Hollway explores a subject that is largely absent from the topical literature on care. Humans are not born with a capacity to care, and this volume explores how this capacity is achieved through the experiences of primary care, gender development and later, parenting. In this book, the author addresses the assumption that the capacity to care is innate. She argues that key processes in the early development of babies and young children create the capability for individuals to care, with a focus on the role of intersubjective experience and parent-child relations. The Capacity to Care also explores the controversial belief that women are better at caring than men and questions whether this is likely to change with contemporary shifts in parenting and gender relations. Similarly, the sensitive domain of the quality of care and how to consider whether care has broken down are also debated, alongside a consideration of what constitutes a ‘good enough’ family. The Capacity to Care provides a unique theorization of the nature of selfhood, drawing on developmental and object relations psychoanalysis, as well as philosophical and feminist literatures. It will be of relevance to social scientists studying gender development, gender relations and the family as well as those interested in the ethics of care debate.   

Doing Qualitative Research Differently: Free Association, Narrative and the Interview Method

This is both a `how to′ book and one that critically reviews many of the assumptions, claims and methods of qualitative research.  Applying a psycho-social understanding of subjectivity to research practice involves conceptualising researcher and researched as co-producers of meanings in the research relationship. The authors use the notion of the "defended subject" to indicate that people will defend themselves against any anxieties in the information they provide in a research context. To interpret interviewees′ responses should entail developing a method in which narratives are central, as should a strategy of interpretation in which interviewees′ free associations are given precedence over narrative coherence. The author

Politics & Social Sciences

Jefferson, Tony

Social Sciences

Sage Publications Ltd.

Work Psychology and Organizational Behaviour: Managing the Individual at Work

This illuminating and incisive textbook traces the development of work psychology and organizational behaviour from the early twentieth century to the present day. Far from being a conventional history of ideas, it is a demonstration of how each emerging school of thought has reflected the search for solutions to particular management problems, within specific social, political and economic contexts. Its primary focus is the relations among knowledge, power and practice.  Hollway deftly documents the key developments in the field, from scientific management and industrial psychology, through the human relations movement, to such current concerns as organizational culture, leadership and human resources management. She examin

Business & Money

Processes & Infrastructure

This illuminating and incisive textbook traces the development of work psychology and organizational behaviour from the early twentieth century to the present day. Far from being a conventional history of ideas, it is a demonstration of how each emerging school of thought has reflected the search for solutions to particular management problems, within specific social, political and economic contexts. Its primary focus is the relations among knowledge, power and practice. Hollway deftly documents the key developments in the field, from scientific management and industrial psychology, through the human relations movement, to such current concerns as organizational culture, leadership and human resources management. She examin

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Social Psychology Matters

Social Psychology Matters

Changing the Subject: Psychology, Social Regulation and Subjectivity

Changing the Subject

The Capacity to Care: Gender and Ethical Subjectivity (Women and Psychology)

The Capacity to Care: Gender and Ethical Subjectivity (Women and Psychology)

Doing Qualitative Research Differently: Free Association, Narrative and the Interview Method

Doing Qualitative Research Differently: Free Association, Narrative and the Interview Method

Work Psychology and Organizational Behaviour: Managing the Individual at Work

Work Psychology and Organizational Behaviour: Managing the Individual at Work