Critical social psychology / edited by Tomás Ibáñez and Lupicinio Iñiguez.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ibáñez, Tomás.

Iñiguez, Lupicinio.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social psychology.

Physical Description:

x, 304 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 1997.

Summary:

Recent work in social psychology has questioned the assumptions and practices of traditional research and debate in the field. Critical Social Psychology pulls these new strands together in a major overview of key theoretical, political, and empirical developments. The book assembles leading figures in the field to address both the need for a critical perspective in social psychology and the many strands of discussion that have informed that critique. The chapters are accessible and passionately argued, ranging over political critique in a postmodern world, the status of qualitative methods, realism versus relativism, and the question of subjectivity from a critical perspective. Critical Social Psychology offers a fascinating tour of debates that are shaping the field today by its leading exponents. It will be essential reading for students and academics in social psychology.

Contents:

Why a critical social psychology? / Tomás Ibáñez

Going critical? / Rex Stainton Rogers and Wendy Stainton Rogers

Discourse and critical social psychology / Jonathan Potter

Does critical social psychology mean the end of the world? / Wendy Stainton Rogers and Rex Stainton Rogers

Laying the ground for a common critical psychology / Stephen Reicher

Postmodernism, postmodernity and social psychology / Martin Roiser

And so say all of us? : some thoughts on 'experiential democratization' as an aim for critical social psychologists / Susan Condor

Discourses, structures and analysis : what practices? in which contexts? / Lupicinio Iñiguez

The unconscious state of social psychology / Ian Parker

Postmodernity, subjectivity and the media / Valerie Walkerdine

Prioritizing the political : feminist psychology / Sue Wilkinson

Reflexively recycling social psychology : a critical autobiographical account of an evolving critical social psychological analysis of social psychology / Ian Lubek

Differentiating and de-developing critical social psychology / Erica Burman

Critical social psychology : identity and de-prioritization of the social / Mike Michael

What scientists do / Karin Knorr Cetina

Participant status in social psychological research / Ivan Leudar and Charles Antaki.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0761952896

OCLC:

37271102