Social Psychology

Social Psychology
Author: Kopano Ratele
Publisher: Juta and Company Ltd
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2003
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9781919713830

Using current socio-political thought and research, this book examines topics such as violence, social and political transition, race and racism, and sexualities. Theoretical and empirical research are related to topical problems, highlighting the complex relations of individuals to their societies and to one another. The histories and complexities of problems and their interconnectedness are examined, and possible solutions are suggested. Special attention is paid to class, sexuality, gender, and race, making psychology in general, and social psychology in particular, relevant and exciting.

Racial Encounter

Racial Encounter
Author: Kevin Durrheim
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2013-05-13
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1135648328

Very clearly written, making complex material really accessible This book offers a definitive analysis of desegregation. South Africa is an extremely important test case and a key area of interest for those interested in racial transformation. The book extends discursive research into a new domain, the social psychology of desegragation. Offering a new and interesting approach.

Transforming Research Methods in the Social Sciences

Transforming Research Methods in the Social Sciences
Author: Angelo Flynn
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 456
Release: 2019-03-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1776143566

Social science researchers in the global South, and in South Africa particularly, utilise research methods in innovative ways in order to respond to contexts characterised by diversity, racial and political tensions, socioeconomic disparities and gender inequalities. These methods often remain undocumented – a gap that this book starts to address. Written by experts from various methodological fields, Transforming Research Methods in the Social Sciences is a comprehensive collation of original essays and cutting-edge research that demonstrates the variety of novel techniques and research methods available to researchers responding to these context-bound issues. It is particularly relevant for study and research in the fields of applied psychology, sociology, ethnography, biography and anthropology. In addition to their unique combination of conceptual and application issues, the chapters also include discussions on ethical considerations relevant to the method in similar global South contexts. Transforming Research Methods in the Social Sciences has much to offer to researchers, professionals and others involved in social science research both locally and internationally.

Interiors

Interiors
Author: Clifford Van Ommen
Publisher: Unisa Press
Total Pages: 498
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781868884483

This is the first book to provide a broad overview of the history of Psychology in South Africa. Building on the small but significant body of existing local historical work, this volume expands the historical focus on Psychology in South Africa considerably by presenting the discipline both in terms of its formal academic development and its complex entanglement with the economic and political developments of this society during the twentieth century. The various chapters in this volume each address a major orientation, field, or sub-discipline of Psychology, paying attention to the academic, professional, as well as political dimensions of its origins and development in South Africa. Comprised of histories of inauguration and subsequent institutionalisation rather than, strictly speaking, histories of ideas, the contributions to this volume take great care to trace the development of Psychology in teaching and research institutions, in various domains and modalities of application, and in the context of Psychology's involvement in the political history of South Africa. The volume blends a number of established and younger voices in South African Psychology.

Flocking Together: An Indigenous Psychology Theory of Resilience in Southern Africa

Flocking Together: An Indigenous Psychology Theory of Resilience in Southern Africa
Author: Liesel Ebersöhn
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2019-07-03
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 3030164357

This book describes how those individuals who are often most marginalised in postcolonial societies draw on age-old, non-western knowledge systems to adapt to the hardships characteristic of unequal societies in transformation. It highlights robust indigenous pathways and resilience responses used by elders and young people in urban and rural settings in challenging Southern African settings (South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho and Swaziland) to explain an Indigenous Psychology theory. Flocking (rather than fighting, fleeing, freezing or fainting) is explained as a default collectivist, collaborative and pragmatic social innovation to provide communal care and support when resources are constrained, and needs are par for the course. Flocking is used to address, amongst others, climate change (drought and energy use in particular), lack of household income and securing livelihoods, food and nutrition, chronic disease (specifically HIV / AIDS and tuberculosis), barriers to access services (education, healthcare, social welfare support), as well as leisure and wellbeing. The book further deliberates whether the continued use of such an entrenched socio-cultural response mollifies citizens and decision-makers into accepting inequality, or whether it could also be used to spark citizen agency and disrupt longstanding structural disparities.

Psychological Assessment in South Africa

Psychological Assessment in South Africa
Author: Sumaya Laher
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 650
Release: 2013-01-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1868149455

This book provides an overview of the research related to psychological assessment across South Africa. The thirty-six chapters provide a combination of psychometric theory and practical assessment applications in order to combine the currently disparate research that has been conducted locally in this field. Existing South African texts on psychological assessment are predominantly academic textbooks that explain psychometric theory and provide brief descriptions of a few testing instruments. Psychological Assessment in South Africa provides in-depth coverage of a range of areas within the broad field of psychological assessment, including research conducted with various psychological instruments. The chapters critically interrogate the current Eurocentric and Western cultural hegemonic practices that dominate the field of psychological assessment. The book therefore has the potential to function both as an academic text for graduate students, as well as a specialist resource for professionals, including psychologists, psychometrists, remedial teachers and human resource practitioners.