K. J. Gergen, M. M. Gergen

Social Psychology

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

3. Greater sensitivity to European work: We have can cut common experience so close to the bone. long felt very close to European social psychol­ In the present volume we wish to share what we ogy, and the European responsiveness to the first believe to be some of the most significant and edition suggested that we were communicating stimulating insights to emerge from social psy­ with this audience. Further, there has been a chology, from its birth to the present. Our writ­ steadily increasing awareness among American ing has been guided in particular by the follow­ and Canadian social psychologists of significant mg concerns: work in Europe. We thus made a special effort in the second edition to reflect this work. No, we Theoretical coherence The emphasis on the­ did not succeed in capturing all the work of im­ oretical ideas begins in the first chapter; we portance. Space limitations and organizational compare the behaviorist, cognitive, and rule­ requirements also meant that work of many wor­ role orientations. We believe that these para­ thy colleagues in the United States and Canada digms form the generating context for subse­ was not included. However, we do feel that the quent chapters. We show how these perspectives present volume is superior to all others in its have influenced the questions that have been integration across continents. asked and the explanations that have been of­ fered for various kinds of social behavior.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer, Berlin
• 2. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 453
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 1986
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 1g
• ISBN-13: 9780387962467
• ISBN-10: 0387962468
• Artikelnr.: 26671709

Inhaltsangabe

1 Theory and Research in Social Psychology.- What Is Social Psychology?.- The Shaping of Modern Social Psychology.- Theory in the Development of a Scholarly Profession.- The Development of Observational Skills.- Purposes of Theory.- Theory and Social Understanding.- Theory as a Sensitizing Device.- Theory as Liberation: The Critical Approach.- The Fruits of Research.- The Documentation of Social Life.- Social Prediction.- Demonstration of Theory.- Major Theoretical Paradigms in Social Psychology.- The Behaviorist Paradigm: A Living Tradition.- The Cognitive Paradigm: Turning Inward.- The Rule-Role Paradigm. Focus on Relationships.- Summary.- Theoretical Perspectives and Human Values.- Research Methods in Social Psychology.- Archival Study: Adventures in History.- Field Observation.- Interviews, Diaries, and Surveys.- Experimental Research.- Experimenter Bias.- Subject Selection.- Meta-Analysis.- Ethical Issues in Research.- Summary.- Useful Terms.- Suggested Readings.- Boxes.- Box 1-1 Two Early View of Social Psychology.- Box 1-2 The Politics of Social Knowledge.- Box 1-3 Gestures Across Space and Time.- 2 The Construction of the Social World.- Foundations of Social Perception.- Concepts: Sources of Survival.- Conceptual Biases: Sources of Dismay.- Concepts and the Lost Person.- Concepts and Leftover Reality.- The Development of Concepts.- Natural Categories and Social Prototypes.- Concept Learning.- Lighting a Fire with Language.- Concept Application: People Making.- Criteria of Family Resemblance.- Motivated Perception: Desire on the Loose.- The Context and the Base Rate.- The Organization of Social Understanding.- Bottom Up: From Asch to Association.- Top-Down: The Self-Interested Schema.- Going Beyond the Information Given.- Person Memory.- Which Schema Wins: The Case of Priming.- Summary.- Attribution of Causality.- Scientists in Miniature: The Kelley Model.- The Rule of Distinctiveness.- The Rule of Consensus.- The Rule of Consistency.- The Choice of Rules.- The Differing Perspectives of Actor and Audience.- Self-Serving Bias in Causal Attribution.- In Search of True Cause.- The Social Negotiation of Reality.- Ethnomethods: The Process of Worldmaking.- The "Natural Attitude": Mistaking Convention for Reality.- Summary.- Useful Terms.- Suggested Readings.- Boxes.- Box 2-1 The Perils of the Intuitive Scientist.- Box 2-2 The Fundamental Attribution Error and Judging the Poor.- Box 2-3 The Social Construction of Natural Science.- 3 The Self.- The Development of the Self.- The Looking-Glass Self.- Social Comparison: Beware of Your Companions.- Role Playing: Mask or Reality?.- Social Distinctiveness: "How Do I Differ?".- Self-Maintenance Strategies: Holding Oneself Together.- Self-Verification: The Production of a True Self.- Biased Attention.- Biased Interpretation.- Affiliation and Presentation.- Information Processing and Self-Maintenance.- Balancing Stability and Change.- Understanding the Emotions.- The Biological View: Emotions as Universals.- The Cognitive View: Attributing Emotions.- The Constructionist View: Emotion as Performance.- The Social Management of the Self.- Self-Presentation, Scripts, and Negotiation.- Self-Monitoring: Toward Improved Strategy.- Self-Awareness: Reflexivity and Standards.- Summary.- Useful Terms.- Suggested Readings.- Boxes.- Box 3-1 Memory Makes It So.- Box 3-2 Social Accountability and Selfhood.- Box 3-3 Self-Handicapping: How to Avoid Losing.- 4 Interpersonal Attraction.- The Creation of Attraction.- The Power of Proximity.- Familiarity and the Mere Exposure Hypothesis.- Rules of Distance: It's Not Who You Are But Where You Are.- Summary.- Physical Beauty.- Initial Attraction: Fair Faces Make Unfair Races.- After the Ball Is Over: The Social Effects Of Beauty.- Beauty Reexamined.- Personal Similarity.- The Joys of Similarity.- Similarity and Complementarity.- Positive Regard: All You Need Is Love.- Information Please: Affiliation and Birth Order.- Close Relationships.- The Course of Inti