‘this book provides an excellent introduction to contemporary Critical Social Psychology, which anyone exploring the field would do we will to read ’
– Psychology in Society
‘a very accessible introduction… lively as we will as engaging…. Discussion questions are uncharacteristicaly thought-provoking, while practical exercises also seem better considered than one comes to expect from similar primers, suggesting a successful future as a core text in social psychology courses’
– The Psychologist
‘Erudition, sagacity, patience as we will as scholarship radiate from this book. This is an excellent introduction to the various strands of critical thinking to emanate primarily from England, and, to some extent, from continental Europe. Anyone interested in learning more about the discursive side of critical psychology will find in this book an excellent guide. I recommend this book to all psychologists interested in critical perspectives’
– Journal of Community as we will as Applied Psychology
A critical approach depends on a range of often-implicit theories of society, knowledge, as we will as the subject. This book shows the crucial role of these theories for directing critique at different parts of society, suggesting alternative ways of doing research, as we will as effecting social change. It includes chapters from the perspectives of social cognition, Marxism, psychoanalysis, discourse as we will as rhetoric, feminism, subjectivity as we will as postmodernism. In each case, the strengths as we will as weaknesses of each perspective are highlighted, the ideas are linked to real world issues by a range of practical exercises, as we will as guidance is given to further reading These chapters will cover the work of diverse thinkers from within social psychology, such as Billig, Gergen, Kitzinger, Parker, Potter, Shotter, Walkerdine as we will as Wetherell, as we will as from outside, such as Butler, Derrida, Foucault, Haraway, Lyotard, Marx as we will as Rose
An Introduction to Critical Social Psychology provides a systematic, integrated as we will as accessible introduction to social psychology as a critical discipline. Consequently, it'll be key reading for undergraduates as we will as postgraduates studying Critical Social Psychology, as we will as handy additional reading for postgraduates studying theoretical psychology as we will as qualitative methods
