scholarly journals Social Psychology and Society Journal Celebrates its 5-th Anniversary!

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 5-8
Author(s):  
N.N. Tolstykh

You are currently viewing the issue № 4, 2015 of the Social Psychology and Society journal — the issue which, in fact, may fully be considered the anniversary one, because it was 5 years ago, at the very end of 2010, that the pilot issue of our journal saw the light of day. In the opening paper of that issue, the author, Galina Andreyeva, remarked that the title of the journal is actually its motto. Perhaps, these words are the most precise definition of the journal’s mission: appealing to the most relevant problems in the society and discussing a wide variety of social psychological issues stemming from the situation of the ‘changed individual in a changing society’ and, therefore, by the changing approaches in methodology and theory.

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1972 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 676-676
Author(s):  
Sheila J. Wallace

The author, a sociologist, describes his monograph as an "empirical study of the interaction of social, psychological and biological factors leading to behavior disorder in epileptic children." The first part of the book consists of a brief introduction to the problems it was felt relevant to investigate and to the sources of patients and of information received about them. A second section is devoted to an examination of the literature. This is comprehensive and well-argued.


2020 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 84-99
Author(s):  
Leigh Thompson ◽  
David Schonthal

This article examines the cardinal tenets of design thinking using the research, theory, and insights of social psychology. People’s intuitions are often incorrect and, moreover, it is often difficult for people to revise their thinking. There are four principles common to many design thinking approaches: observe and notice; frame and reframe; imagine and design; and make and experiment. For each of these design thinking prescriptions, this article analyzes the social-psychological phenomena involved and illustrates practical applications from a real design thinking project at IDEO. Design thinkers and their companies can use these insights from social psychology to inform and inspire the design thinking process.


2006 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 337-349 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin Wehr-Flowers

The purpose of this study was to examine the gender differences in the social-psychological constructs of confidence, anxiety, and attitude as they relate to jazz improvisation participation. Three subscales of the Fennema-Sherman Mathematics Attitude Survey (1976) were modified for this task, and surveys (N = 332) were given to students of various ages participating in jazz programs. Returned surveys (N = 137, 41 % return rate, 83 men, 54 women) were analyzed using a MANOYA design with gender, school level, and instrument choice as the independent variables. A main effect was found for gender, and a subanalysis revealed significant differences between men and women on all three dependent variables confidence, anxiety, and attitude at the level of p < .05. Cronbach's alpha reliability coefficients were. 93 for confidence, . 93 for anxiety, and .88 for attitude. Results suggest that social-psychological issues are influencing female participation in jazz improvisation.


2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 367-380 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janice Nadler

Our social norms and moral values shape our beliefs about the propriety of different types of market exchanges. This review considers social and moral influences on beliefs about property and the consequences of these beliefs for the legal regulation of property. The focus is mainly on empirical evidence from social psychology, with additions from related areas like cognitive psychology, behavioral economics, and other social sciences. After briefly reviewing empirical findings on perceptions of property at the level of the individual person, I examine how social relationships shape perceptions about ownership and exchange of property, as well as the boundaries of the broad category of property. Finally, I explore one important type of socially embedded property—the home—and how social psychological conceptions of property as embedded in social relationships have clashed with the development of the legal doctrine of eminent domain.


Author(s):  
Johanna Ray Vollhardt

This chapter introduces the volume and gives a brief overview of its structure and the content of each chapter. The chapter describes the nature of social psychological research on collective victimhood to date, defines the concept, and provides an organizing framework for scholarship on collective victimhood. This framework emphasizes the interplay of structural and individual-level factors that need to be considered, as well as how the social psychology of collective victimhood is studied at the micro-, meso-, and macro level of analysis. In order to avoid a determinist and simplistic view of collective victimhood, it is crucial to consider the different ways in which people actively construe and make sense of collective victimization of their group(s). It is also important to consider the role of power, history, and other structural factors that together shape the diversity of experiences of collective victimization as well as the consequences of collective victimhood.


2018 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allan B. I. Bernardo ◽  
James H. Liu

The final thematic special issue in the series ‘The Social Psychology of Social Change: Science and Practice in Asia’ features 10 empirical studies that apply diverse social psychological theories and approaches to understand and to address a wide range of social concerns in Asian societies. The articles in the special issue align more to mainstream social psychological approaches to studying social phenomena, and as such are mainly derivative of Western social psychological paradigms, with the exception of a couple of studies that adopt emic indigenous approaches. Nevertheless, the various studies display a clear motivation to use social psychology to engage particular societal concerns, representing incremental progress towards using social psychology in the service of social change.


2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 217-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel C. Thomas

What is a region and how can we best understand a state’s eligibility for membership in a regional political community? Scholars have sought to answer these questions in terms of geographic proximity and social-psychological identity, but neither concept can accommodate the contestation and change that characterize the social construction of regions. Instead, this article argues that the limits of regions are defined within regional organizations by member states’ governments plus supranational actors deliberating over a common definition of the characteristics that members and potential members are expected to share. The concept of membership norms thus offers powerful insights into how regional communities define who is eligible for membership, how these definitions change over time and the incentives they create for those seeking to promote or block an applicant state. The evolution of the European Union’s membership norms since the 1950s illustrates this argument.


Author(s):  
В.И. Белопольский ◽  
А.Л. Журавлев ◽  
А.А. Костригин

Авторы обращаются к истории организации и становления сектора социальной психологии в структуре Института психологии АН СССР в 1972-1975 гг. Описывается социально-исторический и научный контекст возникновения сектора. Обнаруженные архивные материалы показывают, как происходило обособление социально-психологической проблематики в самостоятельное научное подразделение, и как развивались темы научно-исследовательской деятельности в первые годы работы сектора. Рассматривается научная деятельность первых сотрудников сектора социальной психологии (зав. сектором Е.В. Шороховой, С.С. Паповяна, К.К. Платонова, М.И. Бобневой, О.И. Зотовой, Е.В. Спивак, Н.В. Кучевской, Ю.М. Жукова, П.Н. Шихирева), перед которыми стояла задача разработки социально-психологических проблем, а также участие других сотрудников Института психологии (Л.И. Анцыферовой, Е.А. Будиловой) и внешних исследователей (А.Р. Лурии) в социально-психологических исследованиях. Описываются первые планы и отчеты о научно-исследовательской деятельности сектора за 1972-1975 гг. Основными направлениями научных исследований являлись: методологические проблемы социальной психологии, история отечественной и зарубежной социальной психологии, социально-психологические факторы формирования личности, психологическая структура личности в разных социальных группах, социально-психологические особенности коллектива, психологические механизмы социальной регуляции поведения. Показывается научно-организационная деятельность сектора социальной психологии в эти годы: семинар «Методологические проблемы социальной психологии» (рук. Е.В. Шорохова), конференция-совещание «Биологическое и социальное в развитии человека» (сентябрь 1975 г.). Научно-исследовательская и научно-организационная деятельность сектора позволила Институту психологии стать одним из крупнейших научных центров в стране, занимающихся вопросами социальной психологии. The authors address the history of the organization and formation of the sector of social psychology in the structure of the Institute of Psychology of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1972-1975. The social-historical and scientific context of the emergence of the sector of social psychology at the Institute of Psychology is described. The discovered archival materials show how the social-psychological problems were separated into an independent scientific unit and how the topics of research activities developed in the first years of the sector's work. The authors examine the scientific activity of the first employees of the sector of social psychology (head of the sector E.V. Shorokhova, S.S. Papovyan, K.K. Platonov, M.I. Bobneva, O.I. Zotova, E.V. Spivak, N.V. Kuchevskaya, Yu.M. Zhukov, P.N. Shikhirev), who were faced with the task of developing social-psychological problems, as well as the participation of other employees of the Institute of Psychology (L.I. Antsyferova, E.A. Budilova) and external researchers (A.R. Luria) in social-psychological research. The first plans and reports on the sector's research activities for 1972-1975 are described. The main directions of scientific research were: methodological problems of social psychology, history of Russian and foreign social psychology, social-psychological factors of personality formation, psychological structure of a personality in different social groups, social-psychological characteristics of a collective, psychological mechanisms of social regulation of behavior. The scientific-organizational activity of the sector of social psychology in these years is shown: the seminar “Methodological problems of social psychology” (headed by E.V. Shorokhova), the conference-meeting “Biological and social in human development” (September 1975). The research and scientific-organizational activities of the sector of social psychology allowed the Institute of Psychology to become one of the largest scientific centers in the country dealing with issues of social psychology.


2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 192-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clifford Stevenson ◽  
Nick Hopkins ◽  
Russell Luyt ◽  
John Dixon

In this article we review the argument outlined in the opening article in this special thematic section: that the current social psychology of citizenship can be understood as the development of longstanding conceptualisations of the concept within the discipline. These conceptualisations have contributed to the current social psychological study of the constructive, active and collective (but often exclusive) understandings of citizenship in people’s everyday lives, as evidenced by contributions to this thematic section. We consider how this emerging body of work might fit with current citizenship studies and in particular how it may contribute to the current trend towards conceiving citizenship as an active practice embedded in everyday social life. Specifically, we highlight three areas of future research that we think are particularly promising: citizenship and recognition; displays and enactments of citizenship in public space; citizenship and lived coexistence. Although this is far from an exhaustive list of possibilities, we propose that research in these areas could enable the way for social psychology to articulate a distinct, recognisable and valuable contribution to citizenship studies.


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