Popular interest in body image issues has grown dramatically in recent years, due to an emphasis on individual responsibility and self-determination in contemporary society as well as the seemingly limitless capacities of modern medicine; however body image as a separate field of academic inquiry is still relatively young.
This book offers a compelling critical analysis of American society by examining the role of psychotherapy within social policy and the culture that has fashioned it.
The concept of identity is one of the most important ideas the social sciences have investigated in recent years, yet no introductory textbooks are available to those who want to gain a sense of this burgeoning field.
What a pity it would have been if biologists had refused to accept Darwin's theory of natural selection, which has been essential in helping biologists understand a wide range of phenomena in many animal species.
Focusing on one of the most significant and critical issues facing the world today, this important book explores multiple aspects of climate change through the use of Jungian symbols and "e;signs"e; of this environmental shift, while diving deep into the politics of loss in reaction to climate chaos, uncertainty, and ambiguity.
This essential book offers suggestions for how cities and spaces can be planned and designed to reduce the impact of stress, provide opportunities for recovery, and promote the resilience of individuals in urban communities.
The theory of information integration provides a unified, general approach to the three disciplines of cognitive, social, and developmental psychology.
This text critically examines, argues, and demonstrates how the sex-positive movement is complicit in the perpetuation of White Supremacy and anti-black bias in the field of human sexualities, offering white sexuality professionals embodied ethical antiracist strategies for sexual inclusion and transformational change.
This special issue features papers that offer deeply felt, valuable perspectives on diverse aspects of theory construction in social-personality psychology.
This second edition of Fires and Human Behaviour was originally published in 1990 and since the first edition in 1980 there continued to be considerable loss of life in small and large fires throughout the world.
As the oldest members of the baby boomer generation head into their retirement years, this demographic shift is having a substantial influence on uses of mass media, as well as the images portrayed in these media.
The Theory of reasoned action explores the theory and emphirical reserach in to the factors which influence whether people engage in high-risk practices , with specific reference to AIDS education.
This book presents compelling evidence of the ''wealth paradox'', where economic prosperity can also fuel prejudice, social unrest, and intergroup hostility.
In recent years there has been a growth of single-issue campaigns in western democracies and a proliferation of groups attempting to exert political influence and achieve social change.
Adolescents are eager consumers of mass media entertainment and are particularly susceptible to various forms of media influence, such as modeling, desensitization, and contagion.
After years of study in the area of consumer behavior, Mullen and Johnson bring together a broad survey of small answers to a big question: "e;Why do consumers do what they do?
Reading is a highly complex skill that is prerequisite to success in many societies in which a great deal of information is communicated in written form.
ISocial Perception and Social Reality/I contests the received wisdom in the field of social psychology that suggests that social perception and judgment are generally flawed, biased, and powerfully self-fulfilling.
Combining theory and history with an active approach rooted in self-reflection, Multicultural Psychology applies a framework of self-awareness and social justice to foundational and current topics across Multicultural Psychology studies today.
In einer Zeit, in der der Fachkräftemangel zu den größten Herausforderungen für Unternehmen weltweit gehört, bietet dieses Buch einen wegweisenden Ansatz zur Lösung dieses Problems: die Mitarbeiterbeteiligung.
In this book Axel Honneth re-examines arguments put forward by Hegel and claims that the 'struggle for recognition' should be at the centre of social conflicts.
North America's Indigenous population is a vulnerable group, with specific psychological and healing needs that are not widely met in the mental health care system.
This unique volume is about how ordinary people construct political meanings, form political emotions and identities, and become involved in or disengaged from political contests.
