Minority Influence and Innovation

Minority Influence and Innovation
Author: Robin Martin
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 548
Release: 2009-12-16
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1135232768

Social groups form an important part of our daily lives. Within these groups pressures exist which encourage the individual to comply with the group’s viewpoint. This influence, which creates social conformity, is known as ‘majority influence’ and is the dominant process of social control. However, there also exists a ‘minority influence’, which emerges from a small subsection of the group and is a dynamic force for social change. Minority Influence and Innovation seeks to identify the conditions under which minority influence can prevail, to change established norms, stimulate original thinking and help us to see the world in new ways. With chapters written by a range of expert contributors, areas of discussion include: processes and theoretical issues the factors which affect majority and minority influence interactions between majority and minority group members This book offers a thorough evaluation of the most important current developments within this field and presents consideration of the issues that will be at the forefront of future research. As such it will be of interest to theorists and practitioners working in social psychology.

Minority Influence and Innovation

Minority Influence and Innovation
Author: Robin Martin
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 425
Release: 2009-12-16
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1135232776

This book offers a thorough evaluation of the most important current developments within this field and presents consideration of the issues that will be at the forefront of future research.

Perspectives on Minority Influence

Perspectives on Minority Influence
Author: Serge Moscovici
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 614
Release: 1985-06-27
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780521246958

The contributors to this volume examine social processes in terms of minority influence.

Perspectives on Minority Influence

Perspectives on Minority Influence
Author: Serge Moscovici
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 1985
Genre: Influence (Psychology).
ISBN: 9782735101061

The contributors to this volume examine social processes in terms of minority influence.

The SAGE Handbook of Social Psychology

The SAGE Handbook of Social Psychology
Author: Michael A Hogg
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2007-03-26
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1446204774

`This Volume is everything one would want from a one-volume handbook′ - Choice Magazine In response to market demand, The SAGE Handbook of Social Psychology: Concise Student Edition has been published and represents a slimmer (16 chapters in total), more course focused and student-friendly volume. The editors and authors have also updated all references, provided chapter introductions and summaries and a new Preface outlining the benefits of using the Handbook as an upper level teaching resource. It will prove indispensable reading for all upper level and graduate students studying social psychology.

Basic Group Processes

Basic Group Processes
Author: P. B. Paulus
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1461255783

Research on groups has been a major focus of concern among psychologists and sociologists for many years. The study of groups certainly deserves a central role in these disciplines since much of our behavior occurs in groups and many important social phenomena involve groups. Issues such as leadership, conformity, group decision-making, group task performance, and coalition formation have had a long history of research. However, recently a number of other areas of research have blossomed that provide interesting new perspectives on group processes (e.g., social impact). In addition, topics of research have developed outside the commonly ac cepted domain of group dynamics (e.g., self-disclosure) which seem to be concerned with rather basic group processes. Basic Group Processes was designed to bring together in one volume a repre sentative sample of the broad range of work currently being done in the area of groups. Some of the chapters provide a review of the literature while others focus more specifically on current programs of research. All, however, provide new insights into basic group processes and a number provide broad integrative schemes. All of the authors were asked to emphasize theoretical issues rather than a detailed presenta tion of research. Basic Group Processes suggests that research on groups is a lively enterprise and forging interesting new theoretical and empirical directions.

The Oxford Handbook of Social Influence

The Oxford Handbook of Social Influence
Author: Stephen G. Harkins
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 497
Release: 2017
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0199859876

The Oxford Handbook of Social Influence restores this important field to its once preeminent position within social psychology. Editors Harkins, Williams, and Burger lead a team of leading scholars as they explore a variety of topics within social influence, seamlessly incorporating a range of analyses (including intrapersonal, interpersonal, and intragroup), and examine critical theories and the role of social influence in applied settings today.

Majority and Minority Influence

Majority and Minority Influence
Author: Stamos Papastamou
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2017-04-07
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1317355733

Majority and minority influence research examines how groups influence the attitudes, thoughts and behaviours of individuals, groups and society as a whole. This volume collects recent work by an international group of scholars, representing a variety of different theoretical approaches to majority and minority influence. The book provides a thorough evaluation of significant current developments with a particular focus on how active minorities can influence people’s thinking and behaviour, fight against conformity and contribute to real social change. It also discusses the following themes: Social vs. cognitive processes of social influence: cooperation vs. antagonism Majority and minority influence: a singular or a dual socio-psychological process? Conversion vs appropriation of minority ideas Different meta-theoretical considerations underlying social influence research New avenues for future research are presented and many are born from a new integration between influence and persuasion theoretical traditions. By focusing on the societal dimension of social influence this book contributes to filling a theoretical and epistemological gap in the relative literature. It offers a balanced and thorough presentation of the distinct theoretical and epistemological approaches employed by active and important researchers in the field making it essential reading for researchers and upper-level students of social psychology.

Group Processes

Group Processes
Author: Clyde Hendrick
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Total Pages: 306
Release: 1987-09
Genre: Psychology
ISBN:

Group Processes reflects the current vitality of this area of social psychology. The contributors both report current research and present stimulating discussions of central conceptual areas in the study of group processes. In conjunction with Volume 9 of this series, Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, it covers most of the topical areas currently generating considerable research activity. The two books are companion volumes, and will be indispensable texts for advanced courses in psychology and organizational studies.

Coping with Minority Status

Coping with Minority Status
Author: Fabrizio Butera
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2009-08-31
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0521854997

Society consists of numerous interconnected, interacting, and interdependent groups, which differ in power and status. The consequences of belonging to a higher-status "majority" versus a lower-status "minority" can be profound. To understand the origins of the problems caused by majority-minority tensions and develop solutions, it is necessary to understand the dynamics of majority-minority relations. This volume brings together leading scholars in the fields of stigma, prejudice and discrimination, minority influence, and intergroup relations to provide diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives on what it means to be a minority.