Understanding Social Psychology Across Cultures: Engaging With Others in a Changing World - Couverture rigide

Smith, Peter B; Fischer, Ronald; Vignoles, Vivian L.; Bond, Michael H. (Harris)

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1446267105 ISBN 13 : 9781446267103

Editeur : Sage Publications Ltd, 2013

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Updated and revised to include recent developments in cross-cultural psychology, the 2nd edition of Social Psychology Across Cultures provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to classic perspectives and introduces cutting edge research on culture, discussed in terms of its implications for contemporary global issues such as migration, international development, ethnic conflict, climate change and sustainability. The book starts by asking the question: why does social psychology need a cross-cultural perspective? It then follows to examine cultural differences as well as the origins and dynamics of different cultures before addressing traditional social psychological themes within cross-cultural contexts, for example group processes, self and identity, intergroup relations.

Key features

- Extensive coverage of social psychological theories and how these relate to cross-cultural research

- A presentation of concepts and theories made accessible to the reader using practical examples and everyday life experiences from diverse parts of the world

- A thorough exposition of the appropriate methods for conducting state-of-the-art cross-cultural research

The authors each have considerable, combined experience of living and working in different cultural contexts. At the same time, as highly experienced scholars at the intersection of social and cross-cultural psychology, they are able to articulate a vision in this book of how the two communities of social psychology and cross-cultural psychology need to be integrated more to shed light on understanding social behaviour in an enhanced multi-cultural world and in helping to understand global phenomena of paramount importance to communities everywhere.

This textbook is appropriate for advanced undergraduate courses and graduate programs in social and cross-cultural psychology. It will also interest students wanting to understand the impact of culture on their fields of work, such as international relations, social policy, health promotion, ethnic relations and international business.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Ronald Fischer was born near Leipzig in former East Germany in 1976, and completed his doctorate in cross-cultural psychology at the University of Sussex in 2002. He is currently Reader in Psychology at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He has spent much of his adult life exploring remote corners of the world, carrying a laptop and camera. He has broad interests concerning the interplay between culture and human functioning in diverse ecological settings, tackling these big questions applying multivariate statistics and multilevel models. He has published more than 100 papers and book chapters, and is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology.

Vivian L. Vignoles was born near Rochester, UK, in 1973, and obtained his PhD in social psychology at the University of Surrey in 2000. He is currently Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Sussex. His principal research interests are in self and identity processes and cross-cultural psychology, especially understanding the interplay of cultural, contextual, and motivational influences on identity construction, and he is principal investigator of the Culture and Identity Research Network. He has published more than 30 journal articles and book chapters and one edited book, and is an Associate Editor of the European Journal of Social Psychology.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Sage Publications Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1446267105
• ISBN 13: 9781446267103
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 480