The vast majority of research in social psychology focuses on momentary events: an attitude is changed, dissonance is reduced, a cognition is primed, and so on. Little attention is a paid to the unfolding of events over time, to social life as an ongoing process in which events are related in variou..
Historical Tales and National Identity outlines a theory and a methodology which provide tools for better understanding the relation between the present psychological condition of a society and representations of its past. Author Janos Laszlo argues that various kinds of historical texts including h..
Historical Tales and National Identity outlines a theory and a methodology which provide tools for better understanding the relation between the present psychological condition of a society and representations of its past. Author Janos Laszlo argues that various kinds of historical texts including h..
‘How to Rethink Mental Illness’ looks at the dominant structures and ideas through we understand mental health and mental illness, and using case studies from a range of indigenous groups, places western models in a broader cultural and philosophical context...
‘How to Rethink Mental Illness’ looks at the dominant structures and ideas through we understand mental health and mental illness, and using case studies from a range of indigenous groups, places western models in a broader cultural and philosophical context...
How to Rethink Psychology offers a new approach to understanding people and their social behavior. It does not propose a single grand theory, but provides new metaphors which enable us to see, act, and research in a different way...
Originally published in 1983, this clear-sighted study built an understanding of what human behaviour meant at the time: an understanding which can still be of practical use for those who work with people in their everyday lives today...
This volume represents the outcome of a year-long collaboration among biological and social scientists studying issues of the distinction (or fuzziness thereof) between nature and culture. For social and life scientists and philosophers of science...
Presenting a unified view of the emotions in the social universe, in this volume Turner explores the relationships between; emotions, social structure and culture, and hypotheses how social structure and culture affect emotional arousal in humans, and vice versa...