Social Psychology: Sociological Perspectives (2nd Edition)

This text, written by a team of sociologists, introduces students to social psychology by focusing on the contributions of sociology to this field, and on the perspectives, theories, and issues that are of the greatest importance to sociology.

This text emphasizes sociological work in the field, such as the effect of larger social-structural conditions on individuals and groups, and theories/perspectives from macrosociology. Also, it reflects more of the issues that sociologists are concerned with, such as social inequality, than psychology texts do.

The 2nd edition now includes new concepts, theories, and methodologies such as frame analysis, identity control theory, and autoethnography, to name a few.

Customer Reviews:

As good as a textbook can be

By katrina - April 18, 2013

This textbook, Social Psychology, is pretty good. I am a psychology student and don't particularly enjoy reading textbooks, but this one is okay. It's not too boring.

Great read even thought it was for school.

By Peter Parker "- Spiderman" - April 4, 2012

I took a Social Psych course and it was actually really fun. I was a Computer Science student about 2 years ago. I took this class about 3 years ago and I still own the book and recommend my friends to read it. It's quite eye opening to learn what is socially constructed in your mind vs what is real in the context of yourself. I like to say this book changed my mind and my perspective on a lot of things in my life because it made me realize how certain external influences and social interactions construct the way I think and behave vs how I really want to think and behave. So I'm more of an individual and have a better sense of how I can decided who I want to be.