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The Psychology of Social Influence: Modes and Modalities of Shifting Common Sense
This volume brings together the full range of modalities of social influence - from crowding, leadership, and norm formation to resistance and mass mediation - to set out a challenge-and-response 'cyclone' model. The authors use real-world examples to ground this model and review each modality of so... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Understanding the Self and Others: Explorations in intersubjectivity and interobjectivity
How do we, as human beings, come to understand ourselves and others around us? This question could not be more timely or pertinent to the issues facing humankind today. At the heart of many of our world’s most troubling political and social problems lies a divergence, and sometimes a sharp contradic... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
The Cambridge Handbook of Social Representations
by Jaan Valsiner • Sammut, Gordon and Andreouli, Eleni and Gaskell, George and Valsiner, Jaan • Gordon Sammut • Eleni Andreouli • George GaskellA social representations approach offers an empirical utility for addressing myriad social concerns such as social order, ecological sustainability, national identity, racism, religious communities, the public understanding of science, health and social marketing. The core aspects of social represe... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Antidemocracy in America: Truth, Power, and the Republic at Risk (Public Books Series)
by Saskia Sassen • Pedro Noguera • Judith Butler • Craig Calhoun • Wendy Brown • Thomas J. Sugrue • Douglas S. Massey • Fred Turner • Margaret Levi • William Julius Wilson • Linda Gordon • Richard Sennett • Steven Lukes • Michelle Jackson • Victor Pickard • Patrick Sharkey • Philip Gorski • David B. Grusky • Jefferson Cowie • Scott J. Shapiro • Lisa Wade • Jack Halberstam • Oona A. Hathaway • Daniel Aldana Cohen • Shamus Khan • Alina Das • Michelle Wilde Anderson • Gretchen Blake • Richard Shrum • Tanya Marie Luhrmann • Harel. Shapira • Ashley Farmer • Professor of Sociology Michele LamontOn Election Day in 2016, it seemed unthinkable to many Americans that Donald Trump could become president of the United States. But the victories of the Obama administration hid from view fundamental problems deeply rooted in American social institutions and history. The election’s consequences dras... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019