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This ground-breaking and innovative textbook offers a uniquely global approach to the study of social psychology. Inclusive and outward-looking, the authors consciously re-orientate the discipline of social psychology,...
This ground-breaking and innovative textbook offers a uniquely global approach to the study of social psychology. Inclusive and outward-looking, the authors consciously re-orientate the discipline of social psychology, promoting a collectivist approach. Each chapter begins with an illustrative scenario based on everyday events, from visiting a local health centre to shopping in a supermarket, which challenges readers to confront the issues that arise in today’s diverse, multicultural society. This textbook also gives a voice to many indigenous psychologies that have been excluded from the mainstream discipline and provides crucial coverage of the colonization experience.
By integrating core social psychology theories and concepts with critical perspectives, Social Psychology and Everyday Life provides a thought-provoking introduction suitable for both undergraduate and postgraduate students of social psychology and community psychology. It can also be used by students in related subjects such as sociology, criminology and other social sciences.
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Takes a critical stance against the experimental tradition and WEIRD psychology
Offers an inclusive and global approach, which reflects the values of a changing world
Presents a unique scenario-driven structure that situates social psychology in everyday life
Provides historical, political and social context that is missing in other texts
Gives voice to many indigenous psychologies that have been excluded from the mainstream discipline
Provides crucial coverage of the colonization experience
Promotes a transformative agenda, engaging readers in a debate about how the would could or ought to be
1. Introduction to the Social Psychology of Everyday Life 2. Histories of Social Psychology 3. Indigenous Psychologies 4. Pro-social Practices and Critical Humanism 5. Making Sense of Everyday Knowledge 6. Social Psychology and Place 7. Immigration, Acculturation and Settlement 8. Work and Livelihoods 9. Health and Illness 10. Social Justice 11. Media and Daily Practice 12. Towards Social Psychologies of Everyday Life.
"Social Psychology and Everyday Life will serve as a valuable resource for social psychology lecturers and undergraduate students. It will have a special appeal for those who wish to foster critical perspectives, and to promote a variety of epistemological and ontological viewpoints among their students...I could envisage a place for the book as a core introductory text. I look forward to seeing where the approaches outlined by Hodgetts and his colleagues can take our discipline, and which buses my generation of social psychologists will get on." Timothy Gomersall, PhD student, University of Leeds, Social Psychological Review
"Social Psychology and Everyday Life is more engaging and more thought-provoking than any other Social Psychology text I have read. It is a well-researched and refreshing introduction to Social Psychology, its application and its importance for understanding social, cultural and political change. It offers a critical account of the field while acknowledging the value of more mainstream theories and classic studies. As such, it promises to be an enormously useful resource in teaching. Students at all levels will find it interesting, challenging and relevant to their lives and careers."
Dr Caroline Howarth, Social Psychology, London School of Economics
"I typically respond with great suspicion to textbooks that are a bit 'outside the square'. But this textbook is different: It embraces mainstream meta-theories in social psychology and puts them up-side-down in a way that respects the intelligence and sensitivities of the average reader. It does it in a way that is likely to appeal and be acceptable to a large audience." - Dr Stefania Paolini, Social Psychology lecturer, University of Newcastle, Australia
"Social Psychology in Everyday Life does what social psychology textbooks rarely dare to do: it applies the theories of social psychology to the everyday world we actually inhabit. Starting with social problems and experiences to which students can easily relate, the text then leads us from one insight to the next to show how social psychology can transform the world around us."
Alex Gillespie, Lecturer in Psychology, University of Stirling
DARRIN HODGETTSis Professor of Societal Psychology at Massey University, New Zealand. Prior to this appointment, Darrin held posts in Community Health (Memorial University, Canada), Psychology and Media and Communications (London School of Economics and Political Science, England), and Community Psychology (University of Waikato, New Zealand). Darrin's research interests revolve around issues of poverty and homelessness. He is particularly interested in addressing health inequalities and promoting sustainable livelihoods. His recent collaborative books include Urban Poverty and Health Inequalities, The Sage Handbook of Applied Social Psychology, and Asia-pacific Perspectives on Intercultural Psychology....
DARRIN HODGETTSis Professor of Societal Psychology at Massey University, New Zealand. Prior to this appointment, Darrin held posts in Community Health (Memorial University, Canada), Psychology and Media and Communications (London School of Economics and Political Science, England), and Community Psychology (University of Waikato, New Zealand). Darrin's research interests revolve around issues of poverty and homelessness. He is particularly interested in addressing health inequalities and promoting sustainable livelihoods. His recent collaborative books include Urban Poverty and Health Inequalities, The Sage Handbook of Applied Social Psychology, and Asia-pacific Perspectives on Intercultural Psychology. Darrin is co-editor of the Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology.
OTTILIE STOLTE is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Waikato, New Zealand where she teaches social, societal and community psychology. Particular research interests include poverty, precarity, homelessness, health inequalities and urban sustainability. In her research, Ottilie seeks to understand contemporary psychological issues within the broader social, cultural and political contexts of people's everyday lives. As Principal Investigator for the Māori Psychology Research Unit, Ottilie works alongside Māori and Indigenous colleagues and students to advance inclusive, relational and contextualized scholarship in psychology. Ottilie is an associate member of the Ending Poverty & Inequalities Research Cluster (EPIC), and shares a commitment towards social justice, equity and human flourishing.
CHRISTOPHER SONN is an Associate Professor with the College of Health and Biomedicine and Fellow with the Institute for Health and Sport at Victoria University, Melbourne. He is the course chair of the Master Applied Psychology (Community Psychology) and research leader for the Community Identity and Displacement research group. His research involves understanding and elevating the voices of individuals and groups who are marginalized or excluded through forms of symbolic violence such as racism and sexism. Christopher has expertise in community and liberation psychology and qualitative and creative methodologies.
NEIL DREW is Director of the Australia Indigenous HealthInfoNet (www.healthinfonet.ecu.edu.au). His key interests are health knowledge exchange practices and research in cultural contexts. Prior to joining the HealthInfoNet, Neil was Professor and Dean within the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Notre Dame Australia Fremantle Campus and spent four years as Deputy Head of Campus and Head of Academic Programs on the University Campus of Reconciliation in Broome Western Australia. Neil has a background in social and community psychology with over 25 years of experience working with a diverse range of communities and groups
STUART CARR is is Professor of Psychology in the Industrial and Organizational (I/O) Psychology Program at Massey University, New Zealand. Stuart co-facilitates the Ending Poverty and Inequality Cluster (EPIC), which includes a focus on transitions from precarious labour to decent work and living wages. Intersecting with EPIC is Project GLOW (Global Living Organizational Wage), a multi-country, multi-generational, interdisciplinary study of the links between decent wages (in purchasing power parity), and sustainable livelihoods for the eradication of poverty – the primary UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG1). Stuart’s professional focus is Humanitarian Work Psychology, which has included a Global Task Force for Humanitarian Work Psychology, promoting decent work aligned with local stakeholder needs, in partnership with global development agencies
LINDA WAIMARIE NIKORA is is Professor of Indigenous Studies at the University of Auckland where she is also Co-Director of Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, New Zealand’s Māori Centre of Research Excellence. Previously, Linda was the Director of the Māori & Psychology Research Unit at the University of Waikato in New Zealand. Her specialty interest is in the development of indigenous psychologies to serve the interests and aspirations of indigenous peoples. She has been involved in research about Māori flourishing, Māori ways of mourning (tangi), traditional body modification (moko), ethnic status as a stressor, Māori identity development, cultural safety and competence, Māori mental health and recovery, social and economic determinants of health, homelessness, relational health, social connectedness and human flourishing.
