Handbook of Social Psychology

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This handbook provides a broad overview of the field of social psychology and up-to-date coverage of current social psychological topics. It reflects the recent and substantial development of the field, both with regard to theory and empirical research. It starts out by covering major theoretical perspectives, including the inter actionist, identity, social exchange, social structure and the person perspectives. Next, it discusses development and socialization in childhood, adolescence and adulthood. In addition to updated discussions of topics that were included in the first edition, the part examining personal processes includes entirely new topics, such as social psychology and the body and individual agency and social motivation. Interpersonal processes are discussed from a contemporary perspective with a focus on stress and health. The final section examines the person in sociocultural context and includes another topic new to the second edition, the social psychology of race and gender and intersectionality.

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Keywords

• American Sociological Association
• Identity and the Self
• Interaction in Social Networks
• Perspectives in Social Psychology
• Social Exchange Theory
• Social Personality
• Social Psychology and Cross-Cultural Perspectives
• Social Psychology and Deviance
• Social Psychology and Interpersonal Processes
• Social Psychology and Social Interaction
• Social Psychology of Race and Gender
• Socialization in Adolescence
• Socialization in Childhood
• Socialization in the Adult Life Course
• Socializations in Work Relations
• The Social Psychology of Stress and Health

Table of contents (20 chapters)

Front Matter

Theoretical Perspectives

Front Matter

Interactionist Perspectives in Social Psychology

• George J. McCall

Identity Theory

• Jan E. Stets, Richard T. Serpe

Social Exchange Theory

• Karen S. Cook, Coye Cheshire, Eric R. W. Rice, Sandra Nakagawa

Social Structure and Personality

• Jason Schnittker

Development and Socialization

Front Matter

Socialization in Childhood and Adolescence

• Lara Perez-Felkner

Socialization for Primary, Intimate, and Work Relationships in the Adult Life Course

• Sharon E. Preves, Jeylan T. Mortimer

Personal Processes

Front Matter

Social Psychology and the Body

• Eve Shapiro

Self and Self-Concept

• Timothy J. Owens, Sarah Samblanet

Language Use and Social Interaction

• Douglas W. Maynard, Jason Turowetz

Motivation, Motives, and Individual Agency

• Alexis T. Franzese

Values, Attitudes, and Ideologies: Explicit and Implicit Constructs Shaping Perception and Action

• Steven Hitlin, Kevin Pinkston

Emotions

• Shane Sharp, Jeffrey L. Kidder

Interpersonal Processes

Front Matter

Intimate Relationships

• Christopher P. Fagundes, Lisa M. Diamond

Interaction in Small Groups

• Janice R. Kelly, Megan K. McCarty, Nicole E. Iannone

Interaction in Social Networks

• Diane Felmlee, Robert Faris

Editors and Affiliations

University of Wisconsin, Madison Dept. Sociology & Rural Sociology, MADISON, USA

Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA

About the editors

John DeLamater brings a broad, biopsychosocial perspective to the study of sexuality through the life course. His recent work has focused on changes in sexual functioning associated with age. He has published papers on sexual desire and sexual behavior in persons aged 45 to 75+ and a paper on sexual satisfaction using data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (ages 62-67). His recent work considers influences on frequency of sexual activity and cessation of sexual activity among persons 57 to 85. A major review and synthesis of research on sexuality in later life appears in the Annual Review of Sex Research, 2012. He co-edited Sex for Life: From virginity to Viagra, how sexuality changes throughout our lives, NYU press. DeLamater was awarded the Alfred E. Kinsey Award for Distinguished Contributions to the field of sex research by the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality. He is the co-author of a primary text in social psychology and another on sexuality.

Bibliographic Information

• Book Title : Handbook of Social Psychology
• Editors : John DeLamater, Amanda Ward
• Series Title : Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research
• DOI : https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6772-0
• Publisher : Springer Dordrecht
• eBook Packages : Humanities, Social Sciences and Law , Social Sciences (R0)
• Copyright Information : Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
• Hardcover ISBN : 978-94-007-6771-3 Published: 19 August 2013
• Softcover ISBN : 978-94-017-9406-0 Published: 19 August 2014
• eBook ISBN : 978-94-007-6772-0 Published: 13 August 2013
• Series ISSN : 1389-6903
• Series E-ISSN : 2542-839X
• Edition Number : 2
• Number of Pages : XII, 649
• Number of Illustrations : 7 b/w illustrations
• Topics : Sociology, general , Clinical Psychology