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Author Hepburn, Alexa

Title An introduction to critical social psychology / Alexa Hepburn
Published London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 278 pages) : illustrations
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of boxes; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: The Critical Context; What is critical social psychology criticizing?; Stories of class and privilege; Society, knowledge and subjectivity; What's in this book?; Part I: Mind and Society; Chapter 2: Social Cognition Critics; Early critical work in social psychology; The crisis in social psychology; Contemporary social cognition; Application; Conclusion; Chapter 3: Marxist Critics; Marxist theory: basic ideas and recent developments; Ideology and discursive, critical and rhetorical psychology
Foucault's theoretical development and critique of MarxApplication; Conclusion; Chapter 4: Psychoanalytic Critics; Freud's psychoanalysis and Klein's object relations theory; Hollway: object relations in critical work; Parker and Billig's psychoanalytic cultures; Post-structuralism and psychoanalysis:Lacan and others; Application; Conclusion; Chapter 5: Feminist Critics; What is feminist psychology?; Sexism and the legitimation of gender inequalities; Heterosexism and lesbian and gay psychology; Eating disorders and the body; Postmodern feminists: contemporary debates; Feminism and relativism
ApplicationConclusion; Part II: Resolutions and Dilemmas; Chapter 6: Subjectivity Critics; Some philosophical explorations of subjectivity; Critical psychology and subjectivity; Application and intervention; Conclusion; Chapter 7: Discourse Critics; Discourse, psychology and the individual; Discourse and construction; Rhetoric and ideological dilemmas; Applications; Conclusion; Chapter 8: Postmodern Critics; Postmodern theories; Postmodernism, deconstruction and critical social psychology; Postmodern knowledge and the realism/relativism debate; Application; Conclusion
Chapter 9: Integration and SubversionsCritical assumptions; Critical practice; Critical evaluations; Conclusion: looking to the future; References; Index
Summary This text provides a systematic, integrated and accessible introduction to social psychology as a critical discipline. A critical approach depends on a range of often-implicit theories of society and knowledge, as well as the subject
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-268) and index
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Subject Social psychology.
Psychology, Social
social psychology.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology.
Social psychology
Kritische Sozialpsychologie.
Sozialpsychologie -- Einführung.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2002101991
ISBN 1412933226
9781412933223
9781446218884
1446218880
9781446248485
1446248488
9781446222881
1446222888
Other Titles Critical social psychology