We live in a complex, fast-changing and highly
social world. One of the most compelling
questions we face is how to understand ourselves
and other people.
Why do we do what we do, say what we say?
Do we really make choices
or are we limited by forces and pressures
which we may be barely aware of?
There are
no easy answers,
but social psychology has developed a number of fascinating ways
of thinking about and researching into the self in relation to others.
Each of these ways of thinking is based on distinctive sets of ideas about the individual in a social context.
I think a cognitive approach to social psychology
really is something that takes the cognitive
A social psychoanalytic perspective maintains
that anxiety and the …
Discursive psychology really changed my whole
perspective because …
…….said what I discovered with phenomenology
was an approach which took experience seriously.
It also presents a number of interrogative
themes which help researchers and students
understand particular topics in social psychology
- and ask questions of the ways in which the
discipline itself has developed.
