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This book gives a good basic overview of mainly mainstream social psychology and asks some interesting questions. As would be expected from a book on social psychology, limited to 250 pages, it can only present the bare basics but it does this well for the mainstream part. Critical social psychology should feature a bit more and with more up-to-date references, in my view.
A very useful book which provides essential detail on key issues within social psychology.
Will be recommending to all students and the college library.
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A useful book to provide additional reading for students who choose to pursue this optional aspect of the course.
This book will be useful reading for students following aspects of psychology within their programme.
Clearly laid out and very relevant to SW students both as an academic text and as an aid to practice. One thing that could be improved and that is possibly suggestions for seminar tasks. (But maybe I'm lazy?!).
A good book to help 3rd students gain a more universal perspective on the subject
This book is useful particularly when used in conjunction with the 'test questions' edition.
Not essential as the level of content is in between what they need at each level - i.e. too much to buy for Level 3, but not in depth enough to see them through the core module at Level 5. Good focused further reading (at the end of each chapter) for this level.
Like- critical thinking activities. Limited depth (is say Hoff and Vaughan)
Not a suitable scholarly level for our students
This is another interesting overview of a topic in the "Critical Thinking" series. It gives a good flavour of "old" and "new" social psychology. The illustrative case studies are especially helpful.I would not adopt this as a core text for a number of reasons.The topics covered reflect particular interests in social psychology; some of these topics would either not be taught in an undergraduate degree, or would be taught in a different way, depending on the curriculum.The chapter on "Methodologies" is rather short on detail.
The sections covered are appropriately broad for a Social Psychology text book. My biggest concern with the content is that there tends to be a focus on discussing the particulars of debates in field without citing the relevant resource material; a college-level text book should heavily cite ongoing research.
Excellent book. It covers all the main areas in social psychology clearly and concisely. Excellent to see social representations theory and discursive psychology explained so well.
The book is good, but I mainly teach developmental psychology. It will still be useful though.
The book gives a good understanding of critical thinking in social psychology for new students to the subject area. It is well written and recommended reading.
Accessible text and not an unwieldy monolith like some of the other social psychology texts! Nice accessible small book!Good range of questions and topic areas.
