| Understanding People 2003 Edition Contributor(s): Butt, Trevor (Author) |
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ISBN: 1403904669 ISBN-13: 9781403904669 Publisher: Red Globe Press OUR PRICE: $54.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2004 Annotation: "Understanding People" provides an overview and critique of current psychological assumptions about people and what differentiates them, and replaces them with a set of ideas taken from social constructionism. It begins with an examination of contemporary theories, then explores the critique of the social constructionists, before laying out the basis of an understanding of human action and behavior, drawing on phenomenology and personal construct theory. Using everyday experience to illustrate the issues in personality theory (Is behavior situation-specific? Why do we have a sense of self? Is there an unconscious?), this book will breathe life into an area of psychology that is so often arid, and, in the eyes of students, divorced from their world. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Personality - Psychology | Social Psychology |
| Dewey: 155.2 |
| LCCN: 2003066377 |
| Physical Information: 0.42" H x 5.46" W x 8.44" (0.57 lbs) 193 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Understanding People provides an overview and critique of current psychological assumptions about people and what differentiates them, and replaces them with a set of ideas taken from social constructionism. It begins with an examination of contemporary theories, then explores the critique of the social constructionists, before laying out the basis of an understanding of human action and behavior, drawing on phenomenology and personal construct theory. Using everyday experience to illustrate the issues in personality theory (Is behavior situation-specific? Why do we have a sense of self? Is there an unconscious?), this book will breathe life into an area of psychology that is so often arid, and, in the eyes of students, divorced from their world. |