Some Observations on the Status of Social Psychology

1940 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 293-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. B. Reuter
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
The Status

A Perspective on the Status of Social Psychology

1990 ◽  
Vol 35 (10) ◽  
pp. 982-983
Author(s):  
Gail M. Williamson
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
The Status

scholarly journals GÊNERO E SOCIEDADE: EXPLICAÇÕES DE SUAS RELAÇÕES E EFEITOS EDUCACIONAIS

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 171-182
Author(s):  
Alencar Zidani Manuel da Silva ◽  
Raul Aragão Martins
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Cognitive Development ◽  
Social Behavior ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Educational Organization ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Relationship

This article works on Vygotsky’s (1987) conceptions of the relationship between thought and language from a perspective of influence on cognitive development and the formation of the view on gender proposed by the school. In this sense, we also noted the construction of stereotypes understood by Brunneli (2016) as major influences on social behavior and discourse, relating, from this perspective, and being able to explain actions and interactions that are studied by social psychology. Nevertheless, the studies of Cunha and Góes (2002), Xavier, Ribeiro and Noronha (1994) were used to understand how the formation of these stereotypes that were disseminated influenced the educational organization and cooperated to maintain the status quo, that is, inequality and its justifications. Also, to understand the new questions that arise about sexuality, it was necessary to analyze the studies of Louro (1997) and Oliveira e Santos (2012) to understand these new dynamics and perspectives that arise to think about a school concerned with the present, leaving aside your worries about yesterday. Therefore, it was perceived how these relations coexisted and fostered a social organization based on a purpose not only to justify hierarchical power relations, but also to maintain them using strategic sectors such as education and, consequently, the school.

When Does Status Transfer between People? A Crowdsourced Experiment on the Scope of Status by Association

2021 ◽  
pp. 019027252110423
Author(s):  
Jon Overton
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Interaction Partner ◽  
Performance Expectations ◽  
Expectation States ◽  
The Status ◽  
Current Task ◽  
Expectation States Theory ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Status Position ◽  
And Task

It is well known in social psychology that people are judged by the company they keep, but when and how does that company affect how individuals are evaluated? This article extends expectation states theory to explain associative status. The theory predicts that the status value of former coworkers will “spill over” to positively predict a person’s status position in a new task with new coworkers. A series of crowdsourced experiments finds that status spreads to a person from a former interaction partner. The status of one’s associates predicts deference behavior only when the previous and current task contexts rely on similar abilities. Meanwhile, explicitly evaluated status and performance expectations respond to the status of associates regardless of how interaction contexts are related. The present findings highlight the importance of role relationships and task contexts as moderators that regulate whether status transfers from one person to another.

Towards a balanced social psychology: Causes, consequences, and cures for the problem-seeking approach to social behavior and cognition

2004 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 313-327 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joachim I. Krueger ◽  
David C. Funder
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Effect Sizes ◽  
Cognitive Achievement ◽  
Cognitive Errors ◽  
Norm Violation ◽  
Accurate Judgment ◽  
The Status ◽  
Dispositional Characteristics ◽  
Destructive Obedience ◽  
Behavior And Cognition

Mainstream social psychology focuses on how people characteristically violate norms of action through social misbehaviors such as conformity with false majority judgments, destructive obedience, and failures to help those in need. Likewise, they are seen to violate norms of reasoning through cognitive errors such as misuse of social information, self-enhancement, and an over-readiness to attribute dispositional characteristics. The causes of this negative research emphasis include the apparent informativeness of norm violation, the status of good behavior and judgment as unconfirmable null hypotheses, and the allure of counter-intuitive findings. The shortcomings of this orientation include frequently erroneous imputations of error, findings of mutually contradictory errors, incoherent interpretations of error, an inability to explain the sources of behavioral or cognitive achievement, and the inhibition of generalized theory. Possible remedies include increased attention to the complete range of behavior and judgmental accomplishment, analytic reforms emphasizing effect sizes and Bayesian inference, and a theoretical paradigm able to account for both the sources of accomplishment and of error. A more balanced social psychology would yield not only a more positive view of human nature, but also an improved understanding of the bases of good behavior and accurate judgment, coherent explanations of occasional lapses, and theoretically grounded suggestions for improvement.

scholarly journals HISTORY OF DEVELOPING THE CONCEPT OF «LARGE SOCIAL GROUPS». PART 2: FROM THE PERIOD OF LATENT DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY TO THE END OF THE SOVIET PERIOD

2020 ◽  
pp. 96-126
Author(s):  
Ю.В. Ковалева
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Published Data ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status

Представлено продолжение историографического и психолого-исторического анализа научных представлений о больших социальных группах в соответствии с этапами развития социальной психологии и статуса таких групп в различные исторические периоды жизни страны. Начало этого анализа представлено в публикации (Ковалева, 2020), в которой была реализована первая задача исследования по определению исторических рамок, в которые понятие «большие социальные группы» получило свое развитие. Также было показано решение второй задачи, а именно была дана характеристика общественно-политическим условиям и уровню гуманитарного знания для двух первых из выделенных периодов - становления социально-психологического направления исследований в России (вторая половина ХIХ - начало ХХ вв.) и развития социальной психологии в 1920-е и до середины 1930-х гг. Продолжение статьи посвящено решению второй задачи для трех последующих периодов - латентного этапа в становлении социальной психологии (середина 1930-х - 1950-е гг.), возрождения отечественной социальной психологии (1960-е - середина 1970-х гг.) и оформления современной отечественной социальной психологии в систему научного знания (середина 1970-х - 1980-е гг.). Описаны масштабные события, приводившие к значительным и очень разнородным трансформациям общественной структуры в изучаемые годы, приведены редко публикуемые данные о социальной динамике в стране в годы Великой Отечественной войны, а также об усложнении социальной структуры и общественных настроений после Победы. В связи с этим отмечаются упущенные возможности по социально-психологическому исследованию больших социальных групп, но одновременно подчеркивается высокий прогресс в накоплении теоретического и эмпирического материала после восстановления социальной психологии как научной отрасли. The continuation of historiographic and historical-psychological analysis of scientific ideas about large social groups in accordance with the stages of development of social psychology and the status of such groups in various historical periods of the country's life was presented. The beginning of this analysis is presented in a publication (Kovaleva, 2020), in which the first task of the study was realized to determine the historical framework in which the concept of «large social groups» was developed. The solution of the second problem was also shown, namely, the characterization of socio-political conditions and the level of humanitarian knowledge was given for the first two of the selected periods - the formation of the socio-psychological direction of research in Russia (second half of the XIX - beginning of the XX centuries) and the development of social psychology in the 1920s. The continuation of the article was devoted to solving the second problem for three subsequent periods - the latent stage in the formation of social psychology (1930-50s), the revival of domestic social psychology (1960s) and the design of modern domestic social psychology into the system of scientific knowledge (1970-80s). Large-scale events leading to significant and very heterogeneous transformations of the social structure in the studied years are described, rarely published data on the social dynamics in the country during the Great Patriotic War, as well as on the complication of the social structure and public sentiments after the Victory. In this regard, there are lost opportunities for socio-psychological research of large social groups, but at the same time high progress in the accumulation of theoretical and empirical material after the restoration of this scientific industry is emphasized.

Beyond Anecdotes: An Empirical Study of "Anthropomorphism"

2000 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Morris ◽  
Margaret Fidler ◽  
Alan Costall
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Animal Behavior ◽  
The Status ◽  
Empirical Issue ◽  
Methodological Concern

AbstractThe status of "anthropomorphic" descriptions of animals in terms of intentions and emotions has been generally regarded as a prescriptive methodological concern. In contrast, in the study of human social psychology the nature of psychological descriptions of other people has been approached as a substantive empirical issue. Following this lead, the present study investigated the nature of people's descriptions of short videotaped episodes of animal behavior. The descriptions obtained were predominantly anthropomorphic and structured according to a limited set of "event units" whose psychological meaning was highly consistent across the observers. In common with many social psychologists we conclude that consistency of anthropomorphic description suggests that meaning is specified within the structure of behavior.

Beyond Anecdotes: An Empirical Study of "Anthropomorphism"

2000 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Fidler ◽  
Alan Costall ◽  
Paul Morris
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Animal Behavior ◽  
The Status ◽  
Empirical Issue ◽  
Methodological Concern

AbstractThe status of "anthropomorphic" descriptions of animals in terms of intentions and emotions has been generally regarded as a prescriptive methodological concern. In contrast, in the study of human social psychology the nature of psychological descriptions of other people has been approached as a substantive empirical issue. Following this lead, the present study investigated the nature of people's descriptions of short videotaped episodes of animal behavior. The descriptions obtained were predominantly anthropomorphic and structured according to a limited set of "event units" whose psychological meaning was highly consistent across the observers. In common with many social psychologists we conclude that consistency of anthropomorphic description suggests that meaning is specified within the structure of behavior.

scholarly journals HISTORY OF DEVELOPING THE CONCEPT OF «LARGE SOCIAL GROUPS». PART 3: THE BEGGININGS of MODERN STAGE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY (THE 1990s - 2000s of XX CENTURY)

2021 ◽  
pp. 93-126
Author(s):  
Ю.В. Ковалева
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Soviet Society ◽  
Latent Stage ◽  
The Status ◽  
History Of

Статья является продолжением историографического и психолого-исторического анализа научных представлений о больших социальных группах в соответствии с этапами развития социальной психологии и статуса таких групп в различные исторические периоды жизни страны. Начало этого анализа представлено в публикациях (Ковалева, 2020а, 2020б), в которых была реализована первая задача исследования по определению исторических рамок развития понятия «большие социальные группы», а также дана характеристика общественно-политическим условиям и уровню гуманитарного знания для следующих из выделенных периодов: становления социально-психологического направления исследований в России (вторая половина ХIХ - начало ХХ вв.); развития социальной психологии в 1920-е и до середины 1930-х гг.; латентного этапа в становлении социальной психологии (середина 1930-х - 1950-е гг.); возрождения отечественной социальной психологии (1960-е - середина 1970-х гг.) и оформления современной отечественной социальной психологии в систему научного знания (середина 1970-х - 1980-е гг.). В настоящей работе приводится анализ событий и исследований больших социальных групп в начале современного этапа в развитии социальной психологии - в 1990-е - 2000 гг. ХХ в., которые связаны с масштабными событиями - распадом СССР и радикальной реформой экономики. Показана последовавшая за ними социальная динамика, приведены описания новых больших социальных групп. В связи с трагичностью пережитых страной событий упор в работе делается на анализ информационных влияний на общество в изучаемый период, а также коллективных чувств, переживаемых представителями больших социальных групп, и динамики системы ценностей постсоветского социума. Отмечается значительное расширение объекта социально-психологических исследований в направлении изучения больших социальных групп. The paper is a continuation of historiographic and psychological-historical analysis of scientific ideas about large social groups in accordance with the stages of development of social psychology and the status of such groups in various historical periods of the country's life. The beginning of this analysis is presented in publications (Kovaleva, 2020a, 2020b), in which the first task of the study was realized to determine the historical framework for the development of the concept of «large social groups», and also a description was given of socio-political conditions and the level of humanitarian knowledge for the following of the selected periods: the formation of the socio-psychological direction of research in Russia (second half of the XIX - beginning of the XX centuries); the development of social psychology in the 1920s and until the mid-1930s.; latent stage in the formation of social psychology (mid-1930s - 1950s); the revival of domestic social psychology (1960s - mid-1970s) and the design of modern domestic social psychology into the system of scientific knowledge (mid-1970s - 1980s). This work provides an analysis of events and studies of large social groups at the beginning of the modern stage in the development of social psychology - in the 1990-s of XX century, which are associated with large-scale events - the collapse of the USSR and the shock reform of the economy. The following social dynamics were shown, descriptions of new large social groups were given. About the tragic character of the events experienced by the country, the emphasis in the work was on the analysis of information influences on society during the study period, as well as collective feelings experienced by representatives of large social groups and the dynamics of the system of values of the post-soviet society. There was a significant expansion of the object of socio-psychological research in the direction of studying large social groups.

The Status of Arabic Social Psychology: A Review of 21st-Century Research Articles

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 917-927
Author(s):  
Rim Saab ◽  
Arin H. Ayanian ◽  
Diala R. Hawi
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Social Adjustment ◽  
The Self ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Regional Mapping ◽  
Psychology Programs ◽  
Arab Region ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Status

This article explores the current state of Arabic social psychology through a selective review of articles written by Arabs, on Arabs, in Arabic (144 articles, published between 2000 and 2015), a basic profiling of first authors, and a regional mapping of graduate social psychology programs. The Levant emerged as the most productive subregion. The most studied topics overall were “the self” and “social adjustment.” Most articles relied primarily on regional references. Furthermore, articles were mostly empirical, correlational, with adult samples, particularly university students. Most first authors were males and very few were specialized in social psychology. Finally, very few graduate social psychology programs were found. We discuss some ways forward for addressing the seemingly marginalized state of social psychology in the Arab region.

scholarly journals System Justification in Social Psychology? A Survey of Responses to the Replicability Debate in Psychology.

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanne M Watkins
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
System Justification ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Scientific Question ◽  
System Justification Theory ◽  
Psychological Science ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Way

There is currently extensive debate in psychological science about how to improve the field’s replicability (e.g. Lindsay, 2015). In this paper I explore the meta-scientific question of who is pushing for changes to the way research is done, and why. I aim to contribute to the debate in 2 ways: First, I use system justification theory (SJT; Jost, Banaji, & Nosek, 2004) to derive (pre-registered) hypotheses about differences between junior and senior researchers, and as a framework for reflecting on the current debate. Results show that tenured social psychologists are more likely to defend the status quo, and to perceive more costs (relative to benefits) to proposed initiatives such as direct replications and pre-registration, than are those who are untenured. Second, all materials and the data from 406 research psychologists are available on the OSF, and I invite other researchers to make full use of them.

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