Previous leading commentators on the development of psychology in the Third World have conceived of three major stages: an attempt to assimilate Western psychology, with predictably negative results; the study of indigenous constructs, with more relevant applications; and, finally, transcending stage one and stage two to choose theories and methods on their applied merit alone. Psychology and the Developing World has been assembled to document how close psychology has come to researching that stage. Contributors were carefully selected to provide a unique overview of the latest applications of the discipline as a whole. Their work reveals how psychology is being applied to educational needs, management needs, and health needs. This book shows how development studies and allied disciplines cannot ignore psychology's potential for the Third World.

Psychology and the Developing World

Business & Money

Carr, Stuart C.

Schumaker, John F.

Economics

Praeger

Social Psychology has been defined as the scientific investigation of how the thoughts, feelings and behaviours of individuals are influenced by the actual, imagined or implied presence of others. It is a sub discipline of general psychology and is therefore concerned with explaining human behaviour in terms of processes that occur within the human mind, but it differs from individual psychology by seeking to explain social behaviour. Social Psychology deals with culture, gender and sex, social development, organisational psychology, criminal justice, health, mass media and sport. It intersects with other disciplines such as sociology, communication, cultural studies and political science; therefore it is subject to cultural references more than most other areas of study in psychology.  Social psychology is taught at both second and third year in Universities. Most students of social psychology will be majoring in psychology, but the subject is also offered as an elective to students from education, social work and criminal justice, cultural studies and communication studies, depending on the institution. This book would be useful to any or all of these groups.

Social Psychology: Context, Communication and Culture

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

wiley

Behaviour at work can no longer be stereotyped as global or local - modern or traditional - with very little in-between. Instead work behaviour is a complex interplay between Global and Local values. It takes place in a Glocality. Thus individual achievement co-exists with group aspirations, pay diversity takes place in a social context, teamwork reflects cultural narrative, and labour mobility is bound by community bias. Globalization and Culture at Work: Exploring their Combined Glocality breaks new ground by exploring such glocalities, and the implications they create for managing human potential better. The volume is essential reading for researchers, managers, culturalists and consultants of work behaviour alike.

Globalization and Culture at Work: Exploring their Combined Glocality (Advanced Studies in Theoretical & Applied Econometrics)

Business Culture

Springer

Behaviour at work can no longer be stereotyped as global or local – modern or traditional – with very little in-between. Instead work behaviour is a complex interplay between Global and Local values. It takes place in a Glocality. Thus individual achievement co-exists with group aspirations, pay diversity takes place in a social context, teamwork reflects cultural narrative, and labour mobility is bound by community bias. Globalization and Culture at Work: Exploring their Combined Glocality breaks new ground by exploring such glocalities, and the implications they create for managing human potential better. The volume is essential reading for researchers, managers, culturalists and consultants of work behaviour alike.

Globalization and Culture at Work: Exploring their Combined Glocality (Advanced Studies in Theoretical and Applied Econometrics)

Springer-Verlag New York, Inc.

Behaviour at work can no longer be stereotyped as global or local – modern or traditional – with very little in-between. Instead work behaviour is a complex interplay between Global and Local values. It takes place in a Glocality. Thus individual achievement co-exists with group aspirations, pay diversity takes place in a social context, teamwork reflects cultural narrative, and labour mobility is bound by community bias. Globalization and Culture at Work: Exploring their Combined Glocality breaks new ground by exploring such glocalities, and the implications they create for managing human potential better. The volume is essential reading for researchers, managers, culturalists and consultants of work behaviour alike.

Globalization and Culture at Work: Exploring their Combined Glocality

Anti-Poverty Psychology (International and Cultural Psychology)

Psychology has focused more on personalities in poverty -- pathologizing -- than on contexts for poverty reduction (Pick &amp; Sirkin, 2010). As a result, the discipline has inadvertently sequestered and isolated itself, and its potential contribution, from poverty reduction initiatives - globally and locally. In recent years, there have been major developments in both the scope and depth of psychological research on global development issues. Some of the key developments include significant advances in understanding of what motivates teachers in schools, on designing community interventions to promote health, and on managing the development of human “capacity” in aid and development projects. The Psychology of Poverty Reduction is poised to capture such advances in the understanding of ‘what works’ - and what does not.

Psychology has focused more on personalities in poverty -- pathologizing -- than on contexts for poverty reduction (Pick & Sirkin, 2010).  As a result, the discipline has inadvertently sequestered and isolated itself, and its potential contribution, from poverty reduction initiatives - globally and locally. In recent years, there have been major developments in both the scope and depth of psychological research on global development issues. Some of the key developments include significant advances in understanding of what motivates teachers in schools, on designing community interventions to promote health, and on managing the development of human “capacity” in aid and development projects. The Psychology of Poverty Reduction is poised to capture such advances in the understanding of ‘what works’ - and what does not.

This book examines the links between work wage and wellbeing, drawing on the new specialism of Humanitarian Work Psychology and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).&nbsp;Humanitarian work psychology foregrounds people before profit, not wages before people. It resonates with the SDGs through the Decent Work Agenda, a policy program that stresses a number of humanitarian concerns:&nbsp; standards and rights at&nbsp;work,&nbsp;employment&nbsp;creation and enterprise development, social protection and social dialogue. These standards and forms of dialogue, from the living wage standard to new diplomacies for inclusive policy dialogue, appear and re-appear throughout the following chapters and sections in the book.&nbsp;The book synthesizes job characteristics models and psychology of working approaches with job evaluation techniques, poverty trap theory, diminishing marginal returns, work justice theory, the social psychology of equality and inequality, and a range of literatures on wellbeing that crisscross the social sciences.

Wage and Well-being: Toward Sustainable Livelihood

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Psychology and the Developing World

Social Psychology: Context, Communication and Culture

Globalization and Culture at Work: Exploring their Combined Glocality (Advanced Studies in Theoretical & Applied Econometrics)

Globalization and Culture at Work: Exploring their Combined Glocality (Advanced Studies in Theoretical and Applied Econometrics)

Globalization and Culture at Work: Exploring their Combined Glocality

Anti-Poverty Psychology (International and Cultural Psychology)

Anti-Poverty Psychology (International and Cultural Psychology)

Wage and Well-being: Toward Sustainable Livelihood