Social Psychology
- Jane Callaghan - University of Stirling, UK, University of Northampton, UK
- Lisa Lazard - University of Northampton, UK
Introduction to Psychology
Activities help readers build the underpinning generic critical thinking and transferable skills they need in order to become independent learners, and to meet the relevant requirements of their programme of study.
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.
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.
The book is good, but I mainly teach developmental psychology. It will still be useful though.
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.
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. As such this book is probably not comprehensive enough to be recommended as essential reading but may provide the student with a good overview and the bare bones of social psychology, and as such will serve them well as additional, supplementary reading.
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.
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.
It is not clear which level of study this book is aimed at; undergraduate, yes, but which level of undergraduate?
Not a suitable scholarly level for our students
Like- critical thinking activities. Limited depth (is say Hoff and Vaughan)
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.
