Critical Social Psychology - for iPod/iPhone

We live in a complex, fast changing and highly social world. One of the most compelling questions we face is how to understand ourselves and other people. The video tracks on this album introduce the four main theoretical perspectives in social psychology - cognitive, psychoanalytical, discursive and phenomenological. The album also explores interrogative themes that help in the understanding of key topics in social psychology. This material forms part of The Open University course DD307 Social psychology: critical perspectives on self and others.

Understanding ourselves and others

An introduction to the ideas explored in this album.

04-26
01:19

Dr Zimbardo

Psychologists look at a ground breaking social psychological experiment carried out in 1971, seeing how men behaved when given the roles of prisoner's and guards.

04-26
06:45

The Experiment

Professor Alex Haslam talks about the modern day take on Dr Zimbardo's 1971 social psychological study which he set up and filmed for the BBC.

04-26
11:44

Interrogative Themes

Professor Wendy Holloway discusses the ideas behind the themes, and how they help students study social psychology.

04-26
00:40

Situated Knowledges

The idea of knowledge - what it is and how time and place affects how it is perceived.

04-26
02:58

Power Relations

Power relationships, with specific reference to a study on childcare.

04-26
03:20

Individual-Society Dualism

Psychologists Ann Phoenix and Wendy Holloway talk about why individual - society dualism is such a problem.

04-26
03:02

Agency-Structure Dualism

Psychologists Ann Phoenix and Wendy Holloway discuss how people determine their life course - what influences them in society.

04-26
02:26

Four Interrogative Themes

Professor Wendy Holloway looks at the common claim 'boys don't cry' and discusses it in relation to the four themes - situated knowledge, power relations, individual-society dualism and agency-structure dualism.

04-26
04:45

The Phenomenological Perspective

Dr Darren Langdridge and Dr Linda Finlay talk about the lived experience, and how they ended up as phenomenological psychologists.

04-26
02:44

The Traditional Family?

Dr Darren Langdridge discusses phenomenological research, focusing on his own study in understanding the lived experience of sexual identity.

04-26
03:57

Living with Multiple Sclerosis

Dr Linda Finlay talks about her research into the lived experience of MS.

04-26
02:36

Phenomenological Psychology

The distinctions between phenomenological psychology and other perspectives in social psychology are discussed

04-26
04:42

The Social Psychoanalytical Perspective

An introduction to this perspective, with Dr Helen Lucey and Professor Ann Phoenix.

04-26
01:03

Research methodology

Dr Helen Lucey discusses methods of research, focusing on one of her studies on siblings.

04-26
04:43

Interview dynamics

Professor Ann Phoenix discusses her study on masculinities in 11 to 14 year old boys, looking at interview dynamics.

04-26
02:07

Splitting & Projection

Professor Ann Phoenix and Dr Helen Lucey discuss the twin processes, and how they relate to social psychoanalytic research.

04-26
02:58

Projective Identification

What projective identification is, how it links in with projection and where it sits in a social setting.

04-26
01:33

Introjection

Dr Helen Lucy and Ann Phoenix explore how various emotions affect people's behavior.

04-26
02:12

The Cognitive Social Perspective

Professor Alex Hasslam, Professor Tom Postmes and Professor Jolanda Jetten discuss cognitive social psychology, and how they became interested in it.

04-26
01:46

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