HOW IMPORTANT IS THE CONCEPT OF SITUATED KNOWLEDGES TO THE CRITICAL EVALUATION OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY? ILLUSTRATE ESSAY WITH REFERENCE TO TWO TOPICS OF RESEARCH IN DD307 This essay will explore the concept of situated knowledges‚ and assess the importance of this concept to the critical evaluation of social psychological topics. The concept of situated knowledges is used as an interrogative theme to assist in evaluating knowledge produced in research. All knowledge produced‚ is situated historically
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(2007). Chapter 6: Prejudice‚ conflict and conflict reduction. In W. Hollway‚ H. Lucey & A. Phoenix (Eds.)‚ Social Psychology Matters (pp. 145-172). Milton Keynes: The Open University. Haslam‚ A.‚ (2007) Contemporary methods and perspectives [DVD 1‚ DD307] Milton Keynes: The Open University.
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will therefore refer to this approach as experimental social psychology (ESP). My aim is to argue that despite some downfalls‚ ESP provides an indispensible contribution to understanding how the mind is structured by society (Haslam‚ 2007‚ DVD 1‚ DD307). To argue this I will outline the key characteristics of the approach which will involve looking at its historical development. This will give us an insight into how the discipline became grounded within scientific principles and was the dominant
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DD307 - TMA 01 Outline and assess the use of experiments in social psychology drawing on the cognitive social perspective and one of the other three perspectives in the module (discursive psychological‚ phenomenological or social psychoanalytic). This essay will provide a description of the experimental method for both the cognitive social perspective and social psychoanalytic perspective. A compare and contrast will be given for the two perspectives in a critical evaluation as an approach
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References: Haslem‚ A. (2007) in DVD 1‚ DD307‚ The Open University Hollway‚ W. (2007) ‘Social psychology: past and present’‚ in W. Hollway‚ H. Lucey and A. Phoenix (eds) Social Psychology Matters‚ Milton Keynes‚ Open University Press. Hollway‚ W. (2007) ‘Methods and knowledge in social psychology’
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References: Butt‚ T.‚ (2012) p. 62-63 second edition‚ Chapter three Individual differences in Social Psychology Matters. The Open University Walton Hall Milton Keynes DD307 Critical Perspective on Self and Others Online Glossary p.14-19 (2012) Holloway‚ W.‚ (2012) Chapter two Social psychology: past and present in Social Psychology Matters .The Open University Walton Hall Milton Keynes Holloway‚ W.‚ (2012) p. 63 Chapter
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will first be presented and then those approaches will be linked with the topic of close relationships‚ looking at their ways of applications and methods and the kind of knowledge produced. The Cognitive Social Psychology (Haslam‚ 2007‚ DVD 1‚ DD307) focuses on information-processing in social context; in other words‚ our socially structured minds and thoughts. Researchers’ aim is to assess and discern‚ in controlled social conditions‚ individual cognitions in term of causal relations and patterns
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Pheonix (eds) Social Psychology Matters‚ Milton Keynes‚ Open University Press. Zimbardo‚ P (1971) cited on DVD 1‚ DD307‚ The Open University Potter‚ J. and Wetherell‚ M (1987) cited in Hollway‚ W. (2007) ‘Social Psychology: past and present’‚ in W. Hollway‚ H. Lucey and A. Pheonix (eds) Social Psychology Matters‚ Milton Keynes‚ Open University Press. Haslan‚ A (2007) in DVD 1‚ DD307‚ The Open University
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henoA phenomenological study of individuals experience positively long term friendship Abstract How do individuals experience positively long term friendship? The aim of this study is to show what long term friendship means to people and how important the long term friendship is. The study reports data from semi-structure interviews with two female participants‚ which was analysed using interpretive phenomenological psychologist method. This project examines how long term friendship is experienced
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TMA 01 Part 1 Explain the place of anonymity in theories of crowd behaviour. Is it always associated with a ‘loss of self’ All social psychology theories agree that being part of a crowd alters human psychology however‚ they differ on where they believe this alteration is situated. Early work of Le Bon laid the foundations for later deindividuation theories suggesting that being part of a crowd leads to the loss of self. It suggests that people follow crowd behaviour mindlessly‚ often
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