Dealing with Differences

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Sampson, Edward E.

Psychology & Counseling

Harcourt College Pub.

This brief introductory textbook for social psychology courses presents a general view of social psychology, emphasizing the most important work in the field over the last forty years. Solidly grounded in the classics of the field - Lewin, Asch, Sherif, Festinger - its strength and its distinction lie in the considered treatment of the contemporary work of Tetlock, Swann, Baumeister, and others.

Social Worlds, Personal Lives: An Introduction to Social Psychology

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Empiricist philosophy of science of the kind that promised truth through method and a unification of science now lies in disarray. Arguments over the indeterminancy of theoretical language, the inadequacy of induction, the empirical incommensurability of competing theories, the possibility or im possibility of scientific progress, and the applicability of natural science metatheory and methods to problems of human action have allIed to a loss in confidence. As it is commonly said, the philosophy of science is now in a "postempiricist" phase. It is a phase marked by heated disagreement over the possibility of empirically grounded scientific knowledge. Because the orienting assumptions of traditional psychology had been largely derived from the early logical empiricist program for science, the general deteriora tion in confidence at the philosophic level was inevitably to have repercus sions within psychology. The extensive ferment that has occurred within so cial psychology over the past decade, often termed "the crisis in social psychology," must properly be viewed within this context. And, in cases where criticisms of the traditional craft have been initiated on other than philosophical grounds, traditional logical empiricist answers have no longer been found sustaining. In effect, the science of psychology no longer rests on a firm metatheoretical base, and the future remains very much in the bal ance. Within this critical period of search and reappraisal, there are few voices that equal in significance that of Edward Sampson.

Justice and the Critique of Pure Psychology (Critical Issues in Social Justice)

Plenum Press

Celebrating the Other: A Dialogic Account of Human Nature

Routledge

Tight Binding, Limited Chipping or Tears to Edges, Limited Markings or Creasing, Ex-Owner Name Written on all Page Edge Sides

Group Process for the Health Professions (Wiley Medical Publication)

John Wiley&Sons

Presenting a well-balanced blend of theory and practice, this exciting book helps the health care professional develop the skills needed to work effectively in small groups. In clear, concise language, the text introduces the fundamental theories, concepts, issues, and approaches needed for individuals to work successfully in groups.

Group Process for the Health Professions (Wiley Series on Communication Disorders)

Social Psychology and Contemporary Society

Social Psychology and Contemporary Society by Edward E. Sampson

Social psychology and contemporary society (Series in psychology)

Celebrating the Other : A Dialogic Account of Human Nature (Theoretical Imagination in Psychology)

Harvester/Wheatsheaf

In this important book, Sampson launches a new attack - this time on Western culture's centuries-long preoccupation with a contained, individualistic, monologic Self and its fearful suppression of all that is Other - all that is experienced as different from the implicit, self-affirming white male standard. This view, he demonstrates, focuses more on the leading protagonist and supporting cast that he has assembled to service his own interests, desires and fears, than on others as viable people in their own right. Denying the Other so as to create a world secured on behalf of the dominant groups' interests has become an obsession driving not only the larger culture but also the human sciences, in particular psychology's theories of human nature. Women, African-Americans and others not of the dominant classes have been constructed as serviceable Others, and appear in textbooks, journals and popular accounts as figures whose images and everyday realities have been created to serve the dominant groups' desires.  Sampson uses the writings of Mikhail Bakhtin, George Herbert Mead, and postmodern and feminist theorists to reject this dangerous obsession and to create a dialogic foundation to replace the Other-suppressing views of psychology, and indeed, of all Western culture. Sampson's arguments are convincing, liberating, and have major implications for the human sciences and the people they claim to serve. 'Celebrating the Other' will change the way human nature is viewed and studied. As the author reminds us, in silencing the Other we distort our own situation and stunt our opportunities for growth - 'no one voice can be quoted without losing the greatest opportunity of all: to converse with otherness and to learn about our own otherness in and through those conversations.'

Celebrating The Other: A Dialogic Account Of Human Nature (Psychology, Gender, and Theory)

Westview Press

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