SOCPSY 4B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Intersectionality, Sociology Of Culture, Participant Observation

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Social Psychology
• Course: SOCPSY 4B03
• Professor: Jeffrey Denis

Document Summary

Many faces of social psychology: james house (1977, the field of social psychology is divided into three faces : psychological social psychology (psp), symbolic interactionism (si), and psychological sociology or. Social structure and personality (ssp: today, there are other faces as well, group processes (gp), cross-cultural, and critical perspectives. Overview: for each perspective, we will review, central focus/questions, key concepts/arguments, research methods, historical roots / leading thinkers, examples of research from that perspective, strengths and limitations. Psychological social psychology: substantive focus: internal psychological processes in the presence of social stimuli, usual method: laboratory experiments, historical roots: behaviourism (skinner, pavlov, bandura); social cognition (lewin, Festinger); psychoanalysis (freud, erikson); evolutionary psychology (darwin, e. o. Symbolic interactionism: substantive focus: face-to-face interaction, meaning-making processes, usual method: naturalistic observation, historical roots: pragmatist philosophy; chicago school; iowa & indiana schools, examples, looking-glass self (cooley, 1902, labeling theory of deviance (e. g. , lemert, 1951) Blumer"s three premises: meanings arise through social interaction among individuals, reality is socially constructed".