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Contemporary social psychological theories

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Stanford University Press 2018 StanfordEdition: 2nd edDescription: xi, 398 p.: ill. Includes indexISBN:
  • 9781503603653
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302 C6
Summary: This text, first published in 2006, presents the most important and influential social psychological theories and research programs in contemporary sociology. Original chapters by the scholars who initiated and developed these theoretical perspectives provide full descriptions of each theory and its background, development, and future. This second edition has been revised and updated to reflect developments within each theory, and in the field of social psychology more broadly. The opening chapters of Contemporary Social Psychological Theories cover general approaches, organized around fundamental principles and issues: symbolic interaction, social exchange, and distributive justice. Following chapters focus on specific research programs and theories, examining identity, affect, comparison processes, power and dependence, status construction, and legitimacy. A new, original piece examines the state and trajectory of social network theory. A mainstay in teaching social psychology, this revised and updated edition offers a valuable survey of the field. https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=29293
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Table of Contents

Introduction

1. Symbolic interaction framework / George J. McCall
2. Social exchange framework / Scott V. Savage and Monica M. Whitham
3. Justice framework / Karen A. Hegtvedt
4. Identity theory / Jan E. Stets
5. Social identity theory / Michael A. Hogg
6. Affect control theories of social interaction and self / Dawn T. Robinson and Lynn Smith-Lovin
7. Power, dependence, and social exchange theory / Karen S. Cook, Coye Cheshire, and Alexandra Gerbasi
8. Elementary theory / Pamela Emanuelson and David Willer
9. The affect theory of social exchange / Edward J. Lawler
10. Comparison processes theory / Guillermina Jasso
11. Expectations, status, and behavior theory / Joseph Berger and Murray Webster, Jr.
12. Status construction theory / Cecilia L. Ridgeway
13. Legitimacy theory / Morris Zelditch Jr.
14. Social networks structural focus theory / Scott L. Feld.

This text, first published in 2006, presents the most important and influential social psychological theories and research programs in contemporary sociology. Original chapters by the scholars who initiated and developed these theoretical perspectives provide full descriptions of each theory and its background, development, and future. This second edition has been revised and updated to reflect developments within each theory, and in the field of social psychology more broadly.

The opening chapters of Contemporary Social Psychological Theories cover general approaches, organized around fundamental principles and issues: symbolic interaction, social exchange, and distributive justice. Following chapters focus on specific research programs and theories, examining identity, affect, comparison processes, power and dependence, status construction, and legitimacy. A new, original piece examines the state and trajectory of social network theory. A mainstay in teaching social psychology, this revised and updated edition offers a valuable survey of the field.

https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=29293

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