Political psychology. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Christopher J. Hewer and Evanthia Lyons.
• Editors: Hewer, Chris, 1957-; Lyons, Evanthia
• Contents: List of Contributors xv Preface xx CHAPTER 1 Some Historical and Philosophical Considerations 1 ; Christopher J. Hewer When People Come Together 3 Social Psychology 4 The Development of Religious Identities 5 Intersecting Histories: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam 5 The Issue of Governance 8 Transformations in the Twentieth Century 8 The Social and Moral Order 10 The Search for Scientific Understanding 11 Psychology: A New Way of Seeing the World 12 The Influence of Political Philosophy on Social Psychology 14 Locating the Root of Human Behavior 15 Social Cognition 17 A Societal Approach to Political Psychology 18 Social Constructionism 19 The Social Construction of Reality 22 Summary 24 Glossary 24 Further Reading 26 Questions for Group Discussion 27 CHAPTER 2 A Critical History of Research Methods 28 ; Ron Roberts and Christopher J. Hewer What Do We Want to Know About the World and Why? 30 How Can We Know the World? 31 Searching for Universal Laws of Behavior 32 The Computability Problem 33 The Historic Nature of Research Findings 35 The Origin of Statistics 37 The Construction of Norms, Normality, and Normalcy 38 Using Statistical Measures and Models for Political Purposes 40 The Null Hypothesis Significance Test 43 Bayesian Methods 45 The Issue of Replication 47 The File Drawer Effect 48 A Cautionary Note on Theory 48 Conclusions 50 Summary 50 Glossary 51 Further Reading 52 Questions for Group Discussion 53 CHAPTER 3 From Alienation to Estrangement: Political Thought and Psychology 54 ; Ron Roberts Mechanistic Models 56 Karl Marx 57 Alienation 58 Erich Fromm 59 R. D. Laing 61 Mystification 61 Michel Foucault 62 Discursive Regimes, Power, and Freedom 63 Disciplinary boundaries 63 Politics and governance of the self 64 Svetlana Boym 66 Estrangement 66 Off‐modern psychology 68 Art and dissent 69 Summary 70 Glossary 71 Further Reading 71 Questions for Group Discussion 71 CHAPTER 4 The Politics of Psychological Language: Discourse and Rhetoric 73 ; Simon Locke Discursive Psychology, Rhetorical Psychology, and Cognitive Psychology 75 The Scientific Laboratory 76 The Validity of Experiments and Surveys 77 Language, Discourse, and Rhetoric 78 Arguing and Thinking 80 Relativism and Ideology—or the DP‐CA/RP‐CDA Fandango 81 Ideology 83 Critical Discourse Analysis 84 The Politics of Experience 85 Conspiracy Discourse 86 A Cognitive Approach to Conspiracy 87 Reinstating the Thinking Person 88 Summary 90 Glossary 90 Further Reading 91 Questions for Group Discussion 92 CHAPTER 5 Identity 93 ; Christopher J. Hewer and Evanthia Lyons Identity and Human Relations 95 Categorization 95 Self and Society 96 Occupational Identity: Roles and Performance 97 Political Mobilization: National Identity and Nationalism 98 Identity Threats 101 Identity Politics 102 Image, Images, and Appearance 104 Political Identities 106 Social Identity Theory 106 Identity Process Theory 108 Discursive Approaches to Identity 109 Narrative Identities 111 Conclusions 111 Summary 112 Glossary 112 Further Reading 113 Questions for Group Discussion 113 CHAPTER 6 Narrating as Political Action 114 ; Brian Schiff Psychology and Politics 116 Speech and Political Action 117 The Personal and Political Nature of Narrative 117 Expansive Political Narratives 118 Psychoanalytic and Personological Tradition 119 Narrative Approaches 119 Narrative Hermeneutics 120 Narrative and Narrating 120 Intensifying Persons and Social Context 121 Collective Memory 121 Repression 122 Relational Contexts 123 Meanings and Action 123 Producers and Consumers of Memory 124 Palestinians with Israeli Citizenship 124 Hiba: The Real Story 125 Lana: Torn Between the Two 128 Conclusions 130 Summary 131 Glossary 132 Further Reading 132 Questions for Group Discussion 132 CHAPTER 7 Connecting Social Exclusion and Agency: Social Class Matters 134 ; Sarah Jay, Orla Muldoon, and Caroline Howarth Class Matters 136 Cultural Capital 138 The Precariat 139 Capitalist Restructuring and Poverty 140 Stigma 141 Collective Identities 141 The Individualization of Class 142 Agency and Social Class 143 Social Capital 144 Cultural Incompatibility in Education 145 Threats to Identity 146 The Transmission of Cultural Capital 146 Implications for a Social and Political Psychology of Social Exclusion 147 Conclusions 148 Summary 149 Glossary 150 Further Reading 150 Questions for Group Discussion 150 CHAPTER 8 Migration 152 ; Spyridoula Ntani, Artemis M. Griva, and Xenia Chryssochoou Prejudice, Stereotypes, and Discrimination Against Immigrants 155 Stereotyping, Racism, and Forms of Discrimination Against Immigrant Groups 155 Explanations of Prejudice 156 Individual and Collective Reactions to Prejudice 157 Reducing Prejudice? The Contact Hypothesis 158 Changing Societies: The Issue of Acculturation 159 Changing Individuals: The Issue of Adaptation 162 Calling for a New Social Organization: The Paradox of Integration 163 Summary 166 Glossary 166 Further Reading 167 Questions for Group Discussion 167 CHAPTER 9 Political Decision‐Making 168 ; Jack S. Levy The Levels‐of‐Analysis Framework 171 The Rational Model of Judgment and Decision‐Making 173 Psychological Models of Information Processing 175 Cognitive Biases 176 Motivated Biases 180 Psychological Models of Choice 182 Prospect Theory 183 Conclusion 185 Summary 186 Glossary 186 Further Reading 188 Questions for Group Discussion 188 CHAPTER 10 Foreign Policy and Identity 189 ; Emma O’Dwyer Foreign Policy and Identity: Conceptual and Theoretical Anchors 192 The Influence of Citizens on Foreign Policy 193 Outgroup Perceptions and Foreign Policy Attitudes 194 A Case Study: Irish Neutrality 196 Irish Neutrality in Context 196 The Social Representation of Irish Neutrality 198 Cead Mile Failte Neutrality 199 The Macropolitical Dimension of Identity Construction 200 Constructing the National Ingroup in International Affairs 201 Unanswered Questions: Opportunities for Future Research 202 Summary 203 Glossary 204 Further Reading 205 Questions for Group Discussion 205 CHAPTER 11 Social Memory and the Collective Past 207 ; <i
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (376 pages)
• Subjects: 320.01/9; Political psychology
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781118982372
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