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1. Four new chapters: key influencers in psychology from a
non-scientific background, the interaction of psychology the visual
arts and music, the social life of psychological knowledge, and an
examination of the internationalization of psychology. 2. Addition
of a new co-author, Paul Stenner, who has a great international
reputation and has written extensively in the field. 3. Contains a
new list of recommended web-resources.
Are emotions becoming more conspicuous in contemporary life? Are
the social sciences undergoing an an 'affective turn'? This Reader
gathers influential and contemporary work in the study of emotion
and affective life from across the range of the social sciences.
Drawing on both theoretical and empirical research, the collection
offers a sense of the diversity of perspectives that have emerged
over the last thirty years from a variety of intellectual
traditions. Its wide span and trans-disciplinary character is
designed to capture the increasing significance of the study of
affect and emotion for the social sciences, and to give a sense of
how this is played out in the context of specific areas of
interest. The volume is divided into four main parts: universals
and particulars of affect embodying affect political economies of
affect affect, power and justice. Each main part comprises three
sections dedicated to substantive themes, including emotions,
history and civilization; emotions and culture; emotions selfhood
and identity; emotions and the media; emotions and politics;
emotions, space and place, with a final section dedicated to themes
of compassion, hate and terror. Each of the twelve sections begins
with an editorial introduction that contextualizes the readings and
highlights points of comparison across the volume. Cross-national
in content, the collection provides an introduction to the key
debates, concepts and modes of approach that have been developed by
social scientist for the study of emotion and affective life.
1. Four new chapters: key influencers in psychology from a
non-scientific background, the interaction of psychology the visual
arts and music, the social life of psychological knowledge, and an
examination of the internationalization of psychology. 2. Addition
of a new co-author, Paul Stenner, who has a great international
reputation and has written extensively in the field. 3. Contains a
new list of recommended web-resources.
Are emotions becoming more conspicuous in contemporary life? Are
the social sciences undergoing an an 'affective turn'? This Reader
gathers influential and contemporary work in the study of emotion
and affective life from across the range of the social sciences.
Drawing on both theoretical and empirical research, the collection
offers a sense of the diversity of perspectives that have emerged
over the last thirty years from a variety of intellectual
traditions. Its wide span and trans-disciplinary character is
designed to capture the increasing significance of the study of
affect and emotion for the social sciences, and to give a sense of
how this is played out in the context of specific areas of
interest. The volume is divided into four main parts: universals
and particulars of affect embodying affect political economies of
affect affect, power and justice. Each main part comprises three
sections dedicated to substantive themes, including emotions,
history and civilization; emotions and culture; emotions selfhood
and identity; emotions and the media; emotions and politics;
emotions, space and place, with a final section dedicated to themes
of compassion, hate and terror. Each of the twelve sections begins
with an editorial introduction that contextualizes the readings and
highlights points of comparison across the volume. Cross-national
in content, the collection provides an introduction to the key
debates, concepts and modes of approach that have been developed by
social scientist for the study of emotion and affective life.
This book breathes new life into the study of liminal experiences
of transition and transformation, or 'becoming'. It brings fresh
insight into affect and emotion, dream and imagination, and
fabulation and symbolism by tracing their relation to experiences
of liminality. The author proposes a distinctive theory of the
relationship between psychology and the social sciences with much
to share with the arts. Its premise is that psychosocial existence
is not made of 'stuff' like building blocks, but of happenings and
events in which the many elements that compose our lives are
temporarily drawn together. The social is not a thing but a flow of
processes, and our personal subjectivity is part of that flow,
'selves' being tightly interwoven with 'others'. But there are
breaks and ruptures in the flow, and during these liminal occasions
our experience unravels and is rewoven. This book puts such moments
at the core of the psychosocial research agenda. Of
transdisciplinary scope, it will appeal beyond psychosocial studies
and social psychology to all scholars interested in the interface
between experience and social (dis)order.
This book breathes new life into the study of liminal experiences
of transition and transformation, or 'becoming'. It brings fresh
insight into affect and emotion, dream and imagination, and
fabulation and symbolism by tracing their relation to experiences
of liminality. The author proposes a distinctive theory of the
relationship between psychology and the social sciences with much
to share with the arts. Its premise is that psychosocial existence
is not made of 'stuff' like building blocks, but of happenings and
events in which the many elements that compose our lives are
temporarily drawn together. The social is not a thing but a flow of
processes, and our personal subjectivity is part of that flow,
'selves' being tightly interwoven with 'others'. But there are
breaks and ruptures in the flow, and during these liminal occasions
our experience unravels and is rewoven. This book puts such moments
at the core of the psychosocial research agenda. Of
transdisciplinary scope, it will appeal beyond psychosocial studies
and social psychology to all scholars interested in the interface
between experience and social (dis)order.
This open access volume features a data-rich portrait of what young
adults think about the world. It collects the views of students in
higher education from various cultural regions, religious
traditions, linguistic groups, and political systems. This will
help readers better understand a generation that will soon rise to
power and influence. The analysis focuses on 12 countries. These
include Canada, China, Finland, Ghana, India, Israel, Peru, Poland,
Russia, Sweden, Turkey, and the USA. It employs a mixed-methods
approach, invested in the study of an individual's views and values
using state-of-the-art methodology, including the innovative Faith
Q-sort. This instrument is new to the field and developed for
assessing the entanglement of subjective views and personal
beliefs. The study also incorporates a comprehensive values survey
as well as other survey tools that look into people's social
capital, media use, social values alignment, and subjective
well-being. Each chapter is co-authored by an international team of
scholars with research interest in the particular topic. The
rationale for this principle is the need to engage individuals from
different cultural backgrounds, scholarly disciplines, and
methodological and substantive competences. In the end, this
innovative approach presents an informed, empirically grounded
analysis of the values and worldviews of the future generation. It
sheds an important light on how changes in the religious landscape
are intertwined with broad and diffuse processes of socio-economic
and global cultural change.
This open access volume features a data-rich portrait of what young
adults think about the world. It collects the views of students in
higher education from various cultural regions, religious
traditions, linguistic groups, and political systems. This will
help readers better understand a generation that will soon rise to
power and influence. The analysis focuses on 12 countries. These
include Canada, China, Finland, Ghana, India, Israel, Peru, Poland,
Russia, Sweden, Turkey, and the USA. It employs a mixed-methods
approach, invested in the study of an individual's views and values
using state-of-the-art methodology, including the innovative Faith
Q-sort. This instrument is new to the field and developed for
assessing the entanglement of subjective views and personal
beliefs. The study also incorporates a comprehensive values survey
as well as other survey tools that look into people's social
capital, media use, social values alignment, and subjective
well-being. Each chapter is co-authored by an international team of
scholars with research interest in the particular topic. The
rationale for this principle is the need to engage individuals from
different cultural backgrounds, scholarly disciplines, and
methodological and substantive competences. In the end, this
innovative approach presents an informed, empirically grounded
analysis of the values and worldviews of the future generation. It
sheds an important light on how changes in the religious landscape
are intertwined with broad and diffuse processes of socio-economic
and global cultural change.
This book is a simple yet thorough introduction to Q methodology, a
research technique designed to capture the subjective or
first-person viewpoints of its participants. Watts and Stenner
outline the key theoretical concepts developed by William
Stephenson, the founder of Q methodology, including subjectivity,
concourse theory and abduction. They then turn to the
practicalities of delivering high quality Q methodological
research. Using worked examples throughout, the reader is guided
through: * important design issues * the conduct of fieldwork * all
the analytic processes of Q methodology, including factor
extraction, factor rotation and factor interpretation. Drawing on
helpful conceptual introductions to potentially difficult
statistical concepts and a step-by-step guide to running Q
methodological analyses using dedicated software, this book enables
interested readers to design, manage, analyse, interpret and
publish their own Q methodological research.
For many years, for many people social psychology has been deemed a
discipline in crisis. This new book proposes a way out of the
crisis by letting go of the idea that psychology needs new
foundations or a new identity, whether biological, discursive or
cognitive. The psychological is not narrowly confined to any one
aspect of human experience; it is quite literally everywhere. The
book proposes a strong process-oriented approach to the
psychological, which studies events or occasions. Aspects of
experience such as communication or embodiment are treated as
thoroughly mediated - the product of multiple intersecting
relationships between the biological, the psychic and the social.
The outcome is an image of a mobile, reflexively founded discipline
which follows the psychological wherever it takes us, from the
depths of embodiment to the complexities of modern global politics.
This book is a simple yet thorough introduction to Q methodology, a
research technique designed to capture the subjective or
first-person viewpoints of its participants. Watts and Stenner
outline the key theoretical concepts developed by William
Stephenson, the founder of Q methodology, including subjectivity,
concourse theory and abduction. They then turn to the
practicalities of delivering high quality Q methodological
research. Using worked examples throughout, the reader is guided
through: * important design issues * the conduct of fieldwork * all
the analytic processes of Q methodology, including factor
extraction, factor rotation and factor interpretation. Drawing on
helpful conceptual introductions to potentially difficult
statistical concepts and a step-by-step guide to running Q
methodological analyses using dedicated software, this book enables
interested readers to design, manage, analyse, interpret and
publish their own Q methodological research.
For many years, for many people social psychology has been deemed a
discipline in crisis. This new book proposes a way out of the
crisis by letting go of the idea that psychology needs new
foundations or a new identity, whether biological, discursive or
cognitive. The psychological is not narrowly confined to any one
aspect of human experience; it is quite literally everywhere. The
book proposes a strong process-oriented approach to the
psychological, which studies events or occasions. Aspects of
experience such as communication or embodiment are treated as
thoroughly mediated - the product of multiple intersecting
relationships between the biological, the psychic and the social.
The outcome is an image of a mobile, reflexively founded discipline
which follows the psychological wherever it takes us, from the
depths of embodiment to the complexities of modern global politics.
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