This groundbreaking new textbook takes a different perspective on social psychology, focused on the social and cultural worlds we inhabit, and encompassing a wide range of core social psychology topics - from the self to relationships, gender to health, racism to mental distress.
Taking a critical approach, this book explores how qualitative methods and interpretational analyses can be used to examine human behaviour and what it is like living in today-s media-led world. It explicitly challenges all forms of Othering, taking a fresh look at human values, embodiment, agency, communication, thinking and feeling. It goes beyond the individualising scientific approach taken by traditional psychology, instead concentrating on the psychology of what makes us human - qualities like empathy and compassion, courage and dignity, kindness and sympathy - and how we can nurture them. Offering a fascinating alternative to existing resources and enhanced by carefully chosen full-colour
