The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Social Psychology / edited by Brendan Gough.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gough, Brendan, Editor.

Series:

Behavioral Science and Psychology Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Personality.

Difference (Psychology).

Critical psychology.

Sex.

Philosophy of mind.

Self.

Social sciences--Philosophy.

Social sciences.

Social psychology.

Personality and Differential Psychology.

Critical Psychology.

Gender Studies.

Philosophy of the Self.

Social Theory.

Social Psychology.

Local Subjects:

Personality and Differential Psychology.

Critical Psychology.

Gender Studies.

Philosophy of the Self.

Social Theory.

Social Psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XXVII, 734 p. 1 illus.)

Edition:

2nd ed. 2025.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025.

Summary:

This handbook is the second edition of a highly cited and impactful collection, which was 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, the volume helped to establish critical social psychology as a discipline of study, distinct from mainstream social psychology. The book helps to explain 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 theories and methodologies that underpin critical approaches. This second edition adds four new chapters – from two UK authors, one US and one from New Zealand - on the subjects of Indigenous Psychologies, Māori communities, Deleuze and arts-based research. It also adds a new introduction from the editor. This volume features a range of leading authors working on key social psychological issues, and highlights a commitment to a social psychology which shuns psychologisation, reductionism and neutrality. It provides invaluable insight into many of the most pressing and distressing issues we face in modern society, including the migrant and refugee crises affecting Europe; the devaluing of black lives in the USA; and the poverty, ill-health, and poor mental well-being that has resulted from ever-increasing austerity efforts in the UK. Including sections on critical perspectives, critical methodologies, and critical applications, this volume also focuses on issues within social cognition, self and identity. This one-stop handbook is an indispensable resource for a range of academics, students and researchers in the fields of psychology and sociology, and particularly those with an interest in social identity, power relations, and critical interventions. Brendan Gough is a critical social psychologist and qualitative researcher based at Leeds Beckett University who primarily researches and publishes on men and masculinities. He is the co-founder and co-editor of the journal Qualitative Research in Psychology, is currently Editor-in-Chief of the journal Social & Personality Psychology Compass and was formerly an associate editor of the journal Psychology of Men & Masculinities. He has worked with several colleagues to produce a number of books over the years. Recent books include The Routledge International Handbook of Innovative Qualitative Psychological Research. (2023, with E. Tseliou, C. Demuth & E. Georgaca) and (In)Fertile Male Bodies: Masculinities and Lifestyle Management in NeoLiberal Times. (2022, with E. Hanna). In 2016 he was awarded a fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences. .

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. A Deleuzian Social Psychology / Steven D. Brown & Craig Lundy

Chapter 8. Critical Race Studies in Psychology / Phia S. Salter & Andrea D. Haugen

Chapter 9. Psychology of Liberation Revised (A Critique of Critique) / Maritza Montero

PART III. Critical Methodologies

Chapter 10. Phenomenology / Darren Langdridge

Chapter 11. Narrative Social Psychology / Michael Murray

Chapter 12. Discourse Analysis / Martha Augoustinos

Chapter 13. Psychosocial Research / Stephanie Taylor

Chapter 14. Innovations in Qualitative Methods / Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke & Debra Gray

Chapter 15. A Deeper Music: Arts-Based Research as Critical Social Psychology / David Carless & Kitrina Douglas

PART IV. Rethinking Social Cognition

Chapter 16. Attitudes and Attributions / Andy MacKinlay & Chris McVittie

Chapter 17. Social Influence / Stephen Gibson & Cordet Smart

Chapter 18. Prejudice / Keith Tuffin

Chapter 19. Prosocial Behaviour / Irene Bruna Seu

Chapter 20. Relationships: From Social Cognition to Critical Social / Simon Watts

PART V. Social Identities/Relations/Conflicts

Chapter 21. The Self / Chris McVittie & Andy MacKinlay

Chapter 22. Gender / Sarah Riley & Adrienne Evans

Chapter 23. Sexual Identities and Practices / Majella McFadden

Chapter 24. Critical Approaches to Race / Simon Goodman

Chapter 25. Towards a Critical Social Psychology of Social Class / Katy Day, Bridgette Rickett & Maxine Woolhouse

Chapter 26. Critical Disability Studies / Dan Goodley, Rebecca Lawthom, Kirsty Liddiard & Katherine Runswick-Cole

Chapter 27. Intersectionality: An Underutilized but Essential Theoretical Framework for Social Psychology / Lisa Bowleg

Chapter 28. Indigenous Psychologies: A Pluriversal Movement for Cultural, Epistemic, Ecological, and Linguistic Justice / Nuria Ciofalo

PART VI. Critical Applications

Chapter 29. Critical Health Psychology / Antonia C. Lyons & Kerry Chamberlain

Chapter 30. Critical Clinical Psychology / Steven Coles & Aisling Mannion

Chapter 31. Educational Psychology in (times of) Crisis: Psycho-Politics and the Governance of Poverty / China Mills

Chapter 32. Critical Organisational Psychology / Matthew McDonald & David Bubna-Litic

Chapter 33. Environment: Critical Social Psychology in the Anthropocene / Matthew Adams

Chapter 34. Engaging Māori Precariat Households to Make a Difference: Kaupapa Māori Praxis / Ahnya Martin, Darrin Hodgetts, Shiloh Groot, Pita King & Denise Blake.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9783031805332

303180533X

OCLC:

1524424291