Social Psychology category: 7378 books
Counseling the Culturally Diverse
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
The standard bearing guide for multicultural counseling courses now enhanced with research-based, topical, and pedagogical refinements
Counseling the Culturally Diverse: Theory and Practice, 7th Edition is the new update to the seminal work on multicultural counseling. From author Derald Wing...
Does Altruism Exist?
Culture, Genes, and the Welfare of Others
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
David Sloan Wilson, one of the world’s leading evolutionists, addresses a question that has puzzled philosophers, psychologists, and evolutionary biologists for centuries: Does altruism exist naturally among the Earth’s creatures? The key to understanding the existence of altruism, Wilson argues,...
Tavistock Institute
Social Engineering the Masses
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
The real story behind the Tavistock Institute and its network, from an intriguing best-selling author
The Tavistock Institute, in Sussex, England, describes itself as a nonprofit charity that applies social science to contemporary issues and problems. But this book posits that it is the world's...
Audiences and Publics
When Cultural Engagement Matters for the Public Sphere. Changing Media - Changing Europe Series, Volume 2nces and Publics
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2005
In today’s thoroughly mass-mediated world, audiences and publics are, of course, composed of the same people. Yet social science traditionally treats them quite differently. Indeed, it is commonplace to define audiences in opposition to the public: in both popular and elite discourses, audiences...
Challenges of the Third Age
Meaning and Purpose in Later Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2001
The newly retired are entering a time of life that is virtually uncharted, a time in which they are free from social expectations and, to a large extent, from obligations to others. Life's meanings are no longer provided by work and family. Instead, men and women have the freedom, and the need, to...
The Chinese Face in Australia
Multi-generational Ethnicity among Australian-born Chinese
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
The book explains how multi-generational Australian-born Chinese (ABC) negotiate the balance of two cultures. It explores both the philosophical and theoretical levels, focusing on deconstructing and re-evaluating the concept of ‘Chineseness.’ At a social and experiential level, it concentrates...
by Olga B.A. van den Akker
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
This comprehensive book covers the research, theory, policy and practice context of unusual reproduction using third parties. Olga Van den Akker details the psychological adaptation required to continuing changes in public opinion, advances in technologies and new legislations in surrogate motherhood...
How Finkelstein Broke the Trauma Bond, and Beat the Holocaust
Traumatic Memory And The Struggle Against Systemic Evil
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Following on from the first two books in his 'Genesis Trilogy', Lawrence Swaim tells the amazing stories of people who broke the trauma bond, and created new lives for themselves. Including, among others: Norman Finkelstein (whose parents were both Holocaust survivors) who broke free from the inter-generational...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011
In a boundary-crossing and globalizing world, the personal and social positions in self and identity become increasingly dense, heterogeneous and even conflicting. In this handbook scholars of different disciplines, nations and cultures (East and West) bring together their views and applications of...
Winning
Reflections on an American Obsession
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
Most of us are taught from a young age to be winners and avoid being losers. But what does it mean to win or lose? And why do we care so much? Does winning make us happy? Winning undertakes an unprecedented investigation of winning and losing in American society, what we are really after as we struggle...
by Rick Wallace Ph.D, Psy.D.
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Born in Captivity is my 19th book to reach publication, and it is also the most in-depth and comprehensive book thus far. It is a reflection of the more than 50,000 hours of research conducted over the last 20 plus years. In this book, I confront the darkness that is normally avoided at all cost —...
Cause
. . . And How It Doesn't Always Equal Effect
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
The Freakonomics of the sociology world. This book shows how deeply irrational we humans are, and what we can do about it
When we try to understand our world, we ask “why?” a specific event occured. But this profoundly human question often leads us astray. In Cause, sociologist Gregory...
Without Child
Challenging the Stigma of Childlessness
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Without Child challenges the stigma of childlessness by offering childless women the lifeaffirming story of themselves. Beginning with the difficult inner journey a woman faces before finally deciding or realizing she will not bear children, Without Child explores the myth of the childless woman's...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Research and theorizing on criminal decision making has not kept pace with recent developments in other fields of human decision making. Whereas criminal decision making theory is still largely dominated by cognitive approaches such as rational choice-based models, psychologists, behavioral economists...