Contemporary social psychological theories

✍ Scribed by Burke, Peter James

• Publisher: Stanford Social Sciences
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 399
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This text presents the most important and influential social psychological theories and research programs in contemporary sociology. Original chapters by the scholars who initiated and developed these theoretical perspectives provide full descriptions of each theory, its background, development, and future.

The first four chapters cover general approaches, organized around fundamental principles and issues—symbolic interaction, social exchange, distributive justice, and rational choice. The following chapters focus on specific research programs and theories, examining identity, affect, comparison processes, power and dependence, social exchange, status construction, and legitimacy. A concluding chapter provides an analysis of and commentary on the state of the theoretical programs in sociological social psychology.

Contributors: Peter J. Burke, Joseph Berger, Coye Cheshire, Karen S. Cook, Pamela Emanuelson, Alexandra Gerbasi, Karen A. Hegtvedt, Michael A. Hogg, Guillermina Jasso, Edward J. Lawler, Michael W. Macy, George J. McCall, Linda D. Molm, Cecilia L. Ridgeway, Dawn T. Robinson, Lynn Smith-Lovin, Jan E. Stets, Jonathan H. Turner, Murray Webster Jr., David Willer, and Morris Zelditch, Jr.

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Preface / Peter J. Burke --
Symbolic interaction / George J. McCall --
The social exchange framework / Linda D. Molm --
Justice frameworks / Karen A. Hegtvedt --
Rational choice / Michael W. Macy --
Identity theory / Jan E. Stets --
Social identity theory / Michael A. Hogg --
Affect control theory / Dawn T. Robinson and Lynn Smith-Lovin --
The theory of comparison processes / Guillermina Jasso --
Power, dependence, and social exchange / Karen S. Cook, Coye Cheshire, and Alexandra Gerbasi --
Elementary theory / David Willer and Pamela Emanuelson --
The affect theory of social exchange / Edward J. Lawler --
Expectations, status, and behavior / Joseph Berger and Murray Webster, Jr. --
Status construction theory / Cecilia L. Ridgeway --
Legitimacy theory / Morris Zelditch, Jr. --
The state of theorizing in sociological social psychology : a grand theorist's view / Jonathan H. Turner.

✦ Subjects

Social psychology -- Philosophy. Social psychology. Psychologie sociale -- Philosophie. Psychologie sociale. PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology. Sociale psychologie. Sozialpsychologie. Theorie.