The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Social Psychology /

This handbook is the first to bring together the latest theory and research on critical approaches to social psychological challenges. Edited by a leading authority in the field, this volume further establishes critical social psychology as a discipline of study, distinct from mainstream social psyc...

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Corporate Authors: SpringerLink Online service
Group Author: Gough, Brendan
Published: Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
Publisher Address: London :
Publication Dates: 2017.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
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Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-51018-1
Summary: This handbook is the first to bring together the latest theory and research on critical approaches to social psychological challenges. Edited by a leading authority in the field, this volume further establishes critical social psychology as a discipline of study, distinct from mainstream social psychology. The handbook explains how critical approaches to social processes and phenomena are essential to fully understanding them, and covers the main research topics in basic and applied social psychology, including social cognition, identity and social relations, alongside overviews of the main
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (XXIX, 651 pages) : illustrations
ISBN: 9781137510181
Index Number: HM1001
CLC: B848
Contents: PART I. Introduction -- Chapter 1. Critical Social Psychologies: Mapping the Terrain; Brendan Gough -- PART II. Critical Perspectives -- Chapter 2. Feminisms, Psychologies, and the Study of Social Life; Eva Magnusson & Jean Marecek -- Chapter 3. Marxism as a Foundation for Critical Social Psychology; Michael Arfken -- Chapter 4. Social Constructionism; Viv Burr & Penny Dick -- Chapter 5. The Radical Implications of Psychoanalysis for a Critical Social Psychology; Tom Goodwin -- Chapter 6. Queer Theory; Damien Riggs & Gareth Treharne -- Chapter 7. Critical Race Studies in Psychology; Phia S.