Much recent work in social psychology has questioned the assumptions and practices of traditional research and debate. Accessible and often passionately argued, this book pulls these new trends together in a major overview of the main theoretical, political and empirical developments.
Assembling a group of leading figures in the field, the book addresses the need for a critical perspective in social psychology and examines the many levels of discussion that have informed that critique. The contributors encompass such key topics as: political analysis in a postmodern world; the status of qualitative methods; realism versus relativism; and the question of subjectivity from a critical perspective.
Introduction - Russell Spears
Why a Critical Social Psychology? - Tom[ac]as Ib[ac]a[ti]nez
Going Critical? - Rex Stainton Rogers and Wendy Stainton Rogers
Discourse and Critical Social Psychology - Jonathan Potter
Does Critical Social Psychology Mean the End of the World? - Wendy Stainton Rogers and Rex Stainton Rogers
Laying the Ground for a Common Critical Psychology - Stephen Reicher
Postmodernism, Postmodernity and Social Psychology - Martin Roiser
And So Say All of Us? Some Thoughts on `Experiential Democratization' as an Aim for Critical Social Psychologists - Susan Condor
Discourses, Structures and Analysis - Lupicinio [ac]I[ti]niguez
What Practices? In Which Contexts?
The Unconscious State of Social Psychology - Ian Parker
Postmodernity, Subjectivity and the Media - Valerie Walkerdine
Prioritizing the Political - Sue Wilkinson
Feminist Psychology
Reflexively Recycling Social Psychology - Ian Lubek
A Critical Autobiographical Account of an Evolving Critical Social Psychological Analysis of Social Psychology
Differentiating and De-Developing Critical Social Psychology - Erica Burman
Critical Social Psychology - Mike Michael
Identity and De-Prioritization of the Social
What Scientists Do - Karin Knorr Cetina
Participant Status in Social Psychological Research - Ivan Leudar and Charles Antaki
