Social Psychology category: 7378 books
by Alizabeth Swain
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
Are you interested in building a relationship with someone? Or maybe you're looking to finally ace that job interview. Whatever the case may be, in order to be truly successful in life, you need the proper social skills.
I'll Have What She's Having: Mapping Social Behavior
Mapping Social Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
How we learn from those around us: an essential guide to understanding how people behave.
by Anni Damgaard
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2016
Schizophrenic America explores a fundamental conflict in the United States between what we believe to be our inalienable rights and what we experience in every-day-life. This conflict induces a schism in our minds, leading to a "cultural schizophrenia" in America.
This book facilitates the...
Explaining Creativity
The Science of Human Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2006
Explaining Creativity is an accessible introduction to the latest scientific research on creativity. In the last 50 yearss, psychologists, anthropologists, and sociologists have increasingly studied creativity, and we now know more about creativity that at any point in history. Explaining Creativity...
The Pursuit of Loneliness
America's Discontent and the Search for a New Democratic Ideal
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
In a classic indictment of American individualism and isolationism, Philip Slater analyzes the great ills of modern society-violence, competitiveness, inequality, and the national 'addiction' to technology.
by Garret Keizer
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
American essayist and Harper's contributing editor Garret Keizer offers a brilliant, literate look at our strip-searched, over-shared, viral-videoed existence.
Body scans at the airport, candid pics on Facebook, a Twitter account for your stray thoughts, and a surveillance camera on every street...
by Sue Brisbane, Katherine Roberts, Paul Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Exam Board: OCR
Level: A-level
Subject: Sociology
First Teaching: September 2015
First Exam: June 2016
Build students' confidence to tackle the key themes of the 2015 OCR A-Level Sociology specification with this clear and accessible approach delivered by a team of leading subject authors.
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How Fantasy Becomes Reality
Information and Entertainment Media in Everyday Life, Revised and Expanded
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
From smartphones to social media, from streaming videos to fitness bands, our devices bring us information and entertainment all day long, forming an intimate part of our lives. Their ubiquity represents a major shift in human experience, and although we often hold our devices dear, we do not always...
by Peter C. Whybrow, MD
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2006
A doctor's bold analysis of the cultural disease that afflicts us all.
Despite an astonishing appetite for life, more and more Americans are feeling overworked and dissatisfied. In the world's most affluent nation, epidemic rates of stress, anxiety, depression, obesity, and time urgency are...
by Sue Brisbane, Katherine Roberts, Paul Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Exam Board: OCR
Level: A-level
Subject: Sociology
First Teaching: September 2015
First Exam: June 2017
Build students' confidence to tackle the key themes of the 2015 OCR A-Level Sociology specification with this clear and accessible approach delivered by a team of leading subject authors.
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The Proteus Paradox
How Online Games and Virtual Worlds Change Us-And How They Don't
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Proteus, the mythical sea god who could alter his appearance at will, embodies one of the promises of online games: the ability to reinvent oneself. Yet inhabitants of virtual worlds rarely achieve this liberty, game researcher Nick Yee contends. Though online games evoke freedom and escapism, Yee shows...
Kinship by Design
A History of Adoption in the Modern United States
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
What constitutes a family? Tracing the dramatic evolution of Americans’ answer to this question over the past century, Kinship by Design provides the fullest account to date of modern adoption’s history.
Beginning in the early 1900s, when children were still transferred...
The Erich Fromm Reader
Readings Selected and Edited by Rainer Funk
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Fromm’s basic idea was to look at the individual as a social being and to look at society as an ensemble of many individuals who have not only common ideas and convictions based on a common practice of life but also a common psychic structure. With his concept of “social character” he created...
Change
What Really Leads to Lasting Personal Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Change is often a mystery, one that baffles doctors, therapists, teachers, coaches, parents--and especially those of us who struggle to alter our own bad habits or make lasting improvements in our lives. Why do we suddenly change for the better after years of failed efforts? Why do some of us never...