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Название: Discourse and Social Psychology: Beyond Attitudes and Behaviour
Автор: Dr. Jonathan Potter, Prof Margaret Wetherell
Издательство: Sage
Год: 1987
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 256
Размер: 7 MB
Язык: English

Although much has been written about discourse analysis in recent years, little of it has been intelligible to the average undergraduate or even post graduate student. It has become a field in which terminological confusions abound and a bewildering variety of theoretical perspectives compete.This book, which is aimed at the advanced undergraduate student, is the first systematic and comprehensible introduction to the theory and application of discourse analysis within the field of social psychology and other related disciplines.In the first chapter of the book, the theoretical roots of discourse analysis in linguistic philosophy, ethnomethodology and semiotics are described. Chapter Two overviews the perspective of discourse analysis and illustrates its utility in studying attitudes. The following five substantive chapters deal with concepts which are at the heart of the study of social psychology: rules, accounts, the self, categories and social representations. Chapter Eight then details the practical stages through which research on `social texts' progresses and discusses the issue of validity. The concluding chapter tackles some broader, controversial issues and identifies future research directions, and an exhaustive bibliography acquaints the student with all the relevant literature in the field.The text is illustrated throughout with examples from written and spoken discourse: newspaper accounts of riots, scientists' conference presentations, murder confessions and people's everyday explanations of racial inequality as well as recordings of ubiquitous ordinary conversations. The authors avoid jargon at all times, even when introducing complex theoretical issues.Discourse and Social Psychology will be indispensable reading for undergraduates and teachers in the fields of social psychology and communications studies, but will also be relevant to the discipline of sociology, linguistics, anthropology, semiotics, literary studies and history.

Название: About Psychology: Essays at the Crossroads of History, Theory, and Philosophy
Автор: Darryl B. Hill, Michael J. Kral
Издательство: State University of New York Press
Год: 2003
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 192
Размер: 1 MB
Язык: English

A critical and historical overview of psychology at the crossroads.

Название: Psychology And Economic Injustice: Personal, Professional, And Political Intersections (Psychology of Women)
Автор: Bernice E. Lott, Heather E. Bullock
Издательство: American Psychological Association
Год: 2007
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 190
Размер: 8 MB
Язык: English

Social class is a powerful contributor to physical, social, and mental well-being. Psychology and Economic Injustice: Personal, Professional, and Political Intersections, which is part of a series on critical social issues addressed by psychologists empirically, politically, and in clinical practice, blends the personal experiences of feminist psychologists with empirical data. It argues persuasively for examining the relationship between economic disparity and gender, and for the need to propose and support policies to ensure positive social change. Authors Bernice Lott and Heather E. Bullock present narratives of their experiences as psychologists who grew up in working class and low-income families. They trace the relationship between their own development as feminist psychologists and their concern with social and economic justice. Drawing from diverse sources, they present data on social class and poverty, and tie these to social psychology and feminist perspectives. Empirical literature is described to illustrate the injustices faced by families in what is described as similar to racism in America-classism. The volume ends with recommendations for policy, education, further research, and citizen advocacy, while moving from psychology to state and federal issues. Researchers and practitioners in psychology, sociology, social work, or education, with an interest in social problems, gender issues, and multiculturalism, will find this to be a noteworthy contribution to the field.

Название: The Case for Pragmatic Psychology
Автор: Daniel Fishman
Издательство: NYU Press
Год: 1999
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 417
Размер: 1 MB
Язык: English

Web Site The interested reader is urged to contact the author and join a Pragmatic Psychology Dialogue Group at the following web site: http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~dfishman/ ''At long last, a tightly reasoned, thoroughly grounded treatise showing that complex social programs can be understood far more profoundly and usefully than past mindsets have allowed.'' --Lisbeth B. Schorr , author of Common Purpose: Strengthening Families and Neighborhoods to Rebuild America ''Fishman creates a new paradigm for advancing clinical science.

Название: Understanding Occupational & Organizational Psychology
Автор: Lynne J Millward
Издательство: SAGE
Год: 2005
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 528
Размер: 2 MB
Язык: English

Understanding Occupational and Organizational Psychology provides full coverage of the British Psychological Society's training requirements for becoming a chartered occupational psychologist and complies with European training guidelines for industrial, work, and organizational psychology. This book will prompt and inspire further reading and research as well as ideas for dissertations, problem formulation and the creative application of knowledge to various situations.

Название: Cognitive Neuroscience of Development (Studies in Developmental Psychology)
Автор: M. De Haan
Издательство: Psychology Press
Год: 2003
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 320
Размер: 4 MB
Язык: English

How are the experiences of childhood incorporated into the structures of the developing brain, and how do these changes in the brain influence behaviour? This is one of the many questions motivating research in the relatively new field of developmental cognitive neuroscience. This book provides an extensive overview of the methods used to study such questions, and a thorough investigation into the emerging interface between neurobiological and psychological perspectives in the study of typical and atypical cognitive behaviour.

Название: Applying Psychology to Criminal Justice
Автор: David Carson, Rebecca Milne, Francis Pakes, Karen Shalev, Andrea Shawyer
Издательство: Wiley
Год: 2007
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 328
Размер: 2 MB
Язык: English

Few things should go together better than psychology and law - and few things are getting together less successfully. Edited by four psychologists and a lawyer, and drawing on contributions from Europe, the USA and Australia, Applying Psychology to Criminal Justice argues that psychology should be applied more widely within the criminal justice system. Contributors develop the case for successfully applying psychology to justice by providing a rich range of applicable examples for development now and in the future. Readers are encouraged to challenge the limited ambition and imagination of psychology and law by examining how insights in areas such as offender cognition and decision-making under pressure might inform future investigation and analysis.

Название: Greek Laughter: A Study of Cultural Psychology from Homer to Early Christianity
Автор: Stephen Halliwell
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
Год: 2008
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 632
Размер: 3 MB
Язык: English

The first book to offer an integrated reading of ancient Greek attitudes to laughter. Taking material from various genres and contexts, the book analyses both the theory and the practice of laughter as a revealing expression of Greek values and mentalities. Greek society developed distinctive institutions for the celebration of laughter as a capacity which could bridge the gap between humans and gods; but it also feared laughter for its power to expose individuals and groups to shame and even violence. Caught between ideas of pleasure and pain, friendship and enmity, laughter became a theme of recurrent interest in various contexts. Employing a sophisticated model of cultural history, Stephen Halliwell traces elaborations of the theme in a series of important texts: ranging far beyond modern accounts of 'humour', he shows how perceptions of laughter helped to shape Greek conceptions of the body, the mind and the meaning of life.

Название: Methods of Theoretical Psychology (Bradford Books)
Автор: Andre Kukla
Издательство: The MIT Press
Год: 2001
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 325
Размер: 605 kB
Язык: English

Theoretical psychology stands in the same relation to psychology as theoretical physics does to physics. The traditional way to study theoretical psychology is to take up one approach after another--behavioral, psychoanalytic, cognitive, and so on. The aim of this book is not to impart a substantive knowledge of core psychological theories, or even to analyze critically selected theories. Instead, it is to prepare the reader to analyze and advance the theoretical literature in any tradition.A good theoretician should be able to contribute to the study of psychoanalytic theory as readily as to behavioral theory. The skills required are the same. Instead of covering a sequence of theories, therefore, the book is organized around types of theoretical activities. It is not a work in theoretical psychology; it is a book about theoretical psychology. It also confronts psychologists' underestimation of the variety and the significance of theoretical work. Many theoretical issues do not call for empirical research--they require nothing but thinking.

Название: The Middle East: A Cultural Psychology (Culture, Cognition, and Behavior)
Автор: Gary S. Gregg, David Matsumoto
Издательство: Oxford University Press, USA
Год: 2005
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 471
Размер: 4 MB
Язык: English

This is a very good book. I don not know the author and I have never heard about his name before. I found this book by coincidence in a small library somewhere in Vienna and from the from the first minute, I realized that this book is really worthy to read. The only negative point which I found in this book is its langauge. This book is written in very hard english and I think that it is not easy to understand for people, who have not a very good command of english + good knowledge of some theories of social psychology. But: It is a MUST for reserachers and lectureres dealing with social psychology, cross-cultural psychology and the Arab Region. A real new approach away from the well-known and "old-fashioned" dualism of cross-cultual psychology.