Critical Social Psychology - for iPod/iPhone

Apr 25 2009 339
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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.

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Understanding ourselves and others

Apr 25 2009 1 mins  
An introduction to the ideas explored in this album.

Dr Zimbardo

Apr 25 2009 6 mins  
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.

The Experiment

Apr 25 2009 11 mins  
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.

Interrogative Themes

Apr 25 2009
Professor Wendy Holloway discusses the ideas behind the themes, and how they help students study social psychology.

Situated Knowledges

Apr 25 2009 2 mins  
The idea of knowledge - what it is and how time and place affects how it is perceived.

Power Relations

Apr 25 2009 3 mins  
Power relationships, with specific reference to a study on childcare.

Individual-Society Dualism

Apr 25 2009 3 mins  
Psychologists Ann Phoenix and Wendy Holloway talk about why individual - society dualism is such a problem.

Agency-Structure Dualism

Apr 25 2009 2 mins  
Psychologists Ann Phoenix and Wendy Holloway discuss how people determine their life course - what influences them in society.

Four Interrogative Themes

Apr 25 2009 4 mins  
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.

The Phenomenological Perspective

Apr 25 2009 2 mins  
Dr Darren Langdridge and Dr Linda Finlay talk about the lived experience, and how they ended up as phenomenological psychologists.