Social Psychology category: 7378 books
Emotions in Conflict
Inhibitors and Facilitators of Peace Making
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Social and political psychologists have attempted to reveal the reasons why individuals and societies that acknowledge that peace would improve their personal and collective well-being, and are aware of the required actions needed to promote it, are simply incapable of making this step forward. Some...
Age-Friendly Cities and Communities in International Comparison
Political Lessons, Scientific Avenues, and Democratic Issues
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The supportive role of urban spaces in active aging is explored on a world scale in this unique resource, using the WHO’s Age-Friendly Cities and Community model. Case studies from the U.S., Canada, Australia, Hong Kong, and elsewhere demonstrate how the model translates to fit diverse social, political,...
Is There Anything Good About Men?
How Cultures Flourish by Exploiting Men
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2010
Have men really been engaged in a centuries-old conspiracy to exploit and oppress women? Have the essential differences between men and women really been erased? Have men now become unnecessary? Are they good for anything at all? In Is There Anything Good About Men?, Roy Baumeister offers provocative...
Echoes of Gabriel Tarde
What We Know Better or Different 100 Years Later
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
Originally published in 1898, Gabriel Tarde’s essay “Opinion and Conversation” can be read as a series of propositions about the interaction of press, conversation, opinion and action, anticipating today’s “deliberative democracy.” Exploring these themes in a hyper-text “dialogue” with...
How We Live Now
Redefining Home and Family in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
A close-up examination and exploration, How We Live Now challenges our old concepts of what it means to be a family and have a home, opening the door to the many diverse and thriving experiments of living in twenty-first century America.
Across America and around the world, in cities and suburbs...
What Really Matters
Living a Moral Life amidst Uncertainty and Danger
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
In this moving and thought-provoking volume, Arthur Kleinman tells the unsettling stories of a handful of men and women, some of whom have lived through some of the most fundamental transitions of the turbulent twentieth century. Here we meet an American veteran of World War II, tortured by the memory...
Confronting Postmaternal Thinking
Feminism, Memory, and Care
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
There is a deep cultural anxiety around public expressions of maternalism and the application of maternal values to society as a whole. Julie Stephens examines why postmaternal thinking has become so influential in recent decades and why there has been a growing unease with maternal forms of subjectivity...
On Purposeful Systems
An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Individual and Social Behavior as a System of Purposeful Events
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
This book provides an innovative foundation for looking at human and social behavior u as a system of purposeful (teleological) events. It uses a systems theoretical approach for the study of these phenomena, and illustrates and extends general systems theory.
Part One develops the concepts...
by Anthony Kwame Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
Ethnography familiarizes readers with ethnographic research and writing traditions through detailed discussions of ethnography's history, exploratory design, representational conventions, and standards of evaluation. Responding to the proliferation of ethnography both within and outside of academia,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
Straightforward and practical, this is the first book to provide detailed guidance for using neurobiological methods in the study of human social behavior, personality, and affect. Each chapter clearly introduces the method at hand, provides examples of the method's applications, discusses its strengths...
The Dynamics of Persuasion
Communication and Attitudes in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
The Dynamics of Persuasion has been a staple resource for teaching persuasion for nearly two decades. Author Richard M. Perloff speaks to students in a style that is engaging and informational, explaining key theories and research as well as providing timely and relevant examples. The companion website...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
With the field of personal relationships having grown dramatically in the past quarter century, The Cambridge Handbook of Personal Relationships, Second Edition serves as a benchmark of the current state of scholarship, synthesizing the extant theoretical and empirical literature, tracing its historical...
Cognitive Consistency
A Fundamental Principle in Social Cognition
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
This volume provides an overview of recent research on the nature, causes, and consequences of cognitive consistency. In 21 chapters, leading scholars address the pivotal role of consistency principles at various levels of social information processing, ranging from micro-level to macro-level processes....
Qualitative Studies in Quality of Life
Methodology and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
This volume explores the use and relevance of qualitative methods for the study of quality of life. It analyzes the role of qualitative researcher and the role of the context and the culture in quality of life studies. It presents the use of qualitative methods in real projects carried out in specific...