An Introduction to Critical Social Psychology

by Alexa Hepburn

• ISBN13: 9780761962090
• ISBN10: 0761962093
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-02-28
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd

Summary

What is critical social psychology? In what ways can social psychology be progressive or radical? How can it be involved in political critique and reconstruction? Is social psychology itself the problem? Critical social psychology offers a confusing array of diverse answers to these questions. This book cuts through the confusion by revealing the very different assumptions at work in this fast growing field.A critical approach depends on a range of often-implicit theories of society, knowledge, as well as the subject. This book will show the crucial role of these theories for directing critique at different parts of society, suggesting alternative ways of doing research, and effecting social change. It includes chapters fr

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	ix
List of Figures	xi
Introduction	1	(14)
Carnival, Execution and Civilization	15	(20)
The Disappearance of Prison	35	(25)
The Amelioration of Prison Life	60	(21)
The Sanitization of Penal Language	81	(16)
The Memories of Prisoners	97	(24)
Bureaucratization and Indifference	121	(24)
The Breakdown of Civilization	145	(21)
The Gulag and Beyond	166	(28)
Bibliography	194	(15)
Index	209