Social psychology in cross-cultural perspective
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Social psychology in cross-cultural perspective
W.H. Freeman, c1993
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Bibliography: p. [165]-185
Includes indexes
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: cloth ISBN 9780716723547
Description
Acknowledging the growing cultural diversity in many societies, social psychologists are exploring the wide-ranging influence of ethnicity, gender, race, social class, and other cultural factors on social behaviour. Such cross-cultural considerations are now seen as vital to understanding behaviour within any given society, as well as across societies around the world. Drawing on these exciting developments, "Social Psychology in Cross Cultural Perspective" analyzes the most important topics in social psychology including social cognition, social influence, and social relations-from a cross-cultural perspective. It is an introductory text which elucidates the link between culture and individual social behaviour.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Culture and social psychology: the importance of culture in social behaviour
- why is culture not considered in social psychology?
- how culture is being introduced into social psychology - social psychology within the United States, social psychology in the international context
- culture and social psychology - toward a solution
- plant of this book. Part 2 Research methods in cultural context: the laboratory experiment as drama - setting the stage, controlling the variables on the set, a cross-cultural look at the laboratory experiment, the culture of the laboratory setting, a cross-cultural look at the Milgram study
- field research - a cross-cultural look at the field study
- survey and interview studies - a cross-cultural look at survey and interview studies
- concepts arising from cross-cultural psychology - the Emic/Etic distinction, "social" psychology and levels of variables. Part 3 Cognitive social psychology in cultural context: attitudes
- attribution
- stereotyping
- conclusions. Part 4 Social influence: experimental studies of social influence
- social norms - norm-formation, conformity and social norms, conformity across cultures, societal processes, conformity, and obedience
- social roles - the power of social roles, social roles and culture, qualitative differences - quantitative differences
- the tradition of Western research on social influence
- social influence and power
- perceptions of where the power lies. Part 5 Social relations: interpersonal relationships - culture and the relationships that social psychologists study, environmental factors affecting interpersonal relations, values and beliefs affecting interpersonal relations, initial attraction and relationship-termination studies, norms and rules
- norms
- rules
- prosocial behaviour
- aggression
- summary and conclusions. Part 6 Intercultural contact and social psychology: interpersonal cross-cultural contact
- successful cross-cultural interaction - adjustment, psychological acculturation
- the process of cross-cultural adjustment - the difficulties of cross-cultural interaction
- stress
- sense of loss
- feelings of impotence
- ethnocentrism
- variables that can aid or disrupt adjustment
- divergence of new culture from one's own
- social support
- personality
- expectation
- intergroup cross-cultural contact - multiculturalism or assimilation.
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: paper ISBN 9780716723554
Description
Acknowledging the growing cultural diversity in many societies, social psychologists are exploring the wide-ranging influence of ethnicity, gender, race, social class, and other cultural factors on social behaviour. Such cross-cultural considerations are now seen as vital to understanding behaviour within any given society, as well as across societies around the world. Drawing on these exciting developments, "Social Psychology in Cross Cultural Perspective" analyzes the most important topics in social psychology including social cognition, social influence, and social relations-from a cross-cultural perspective. It is an introductory text which elucidates the link between culture and individual social behaviour.
Table of Contents
Introduction.- Research Methods in Cultural Context.- Cognitive Social Psychology.- Social Influence.- Social Relations.- Cultural Contact and Social Psychology.
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