Critical Social Psychology - for iPad/Mac/PC
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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. The video tracks on this album introduce the four main theoretical perspectives in social psychology - cognitive, psychoanalytical, discursive and phenomenological. The album also explores interrogative themes that help in the understanding of key topics in social psychology. This material forms part of The Open University course DD307 Social psychology: critical perspectives on self and others.
Dr Zimbardo
Psychologists look at a ground breaking social psychological experiment carried out in 1971, seeing how men behaved when given the roles of prisoner's...
The Experiment
Professor Alex Haslam talks about the modern day take on Dr Zimbardo's 1971 social psychological study which he set up and filmed for the BBC.
Interrogative Themes
Professor Wendy Holloway discusses the ideas behind the themes, and how they help students study social psychology.
Situated Knowledges
The idea of knowledge - what it is and how time and place affects how it is perceived.
Individual-Society Dualism
Psychologists Ann Phoenix and Wendy Holloway talk about why individual - society dualism is such a problem.
Agency-Structure Dualism
Psychologists Ann Phoenix and Wendy Holloway discuss how people determine their life course - what influences them in society.
Four Interrogative Themes
Professor Wendy Holloway looks at the common claim 'boys don't cry' and discusses it in relation to the four themes - situated knowledge, power relati...
The Phenomenological Perspective
Dr Darren Langdridge and Dr Linda Finlay talk about the lived experience, and how they ended up as phenomenological psychologists.