Prof Sandra Jovchelovitch, STC. S310

This is the core course for MSc Social and Cultural Psychology. Optional for MSc Social and Public Communication. Students without a prior degree in psychology (or its equivalent) may only attend subject to numbers, their own degree regulations and at the discretion of the Teacher responsible.

Selected topics in cultural and modern social psychology.

The relationship between mind, society and culture; the relationship between the individual and society; social and cultural psychology in historical perspective; epistemological issues in social and cultural psychology; self, society and social identities, attribution theory; discourse and psychoanalytic approaches to culture and society, social representations, beliefs and attitudes; the relations between culture and psychology; cognition and culture, applied aspects of social and cultural psychology.

Lectures: 8 x 1 hour + 12 (MT) x 2 hour (MT) = 32 in total
Classes: 10 x 1 hour (MT)

1) An individual book review and 2) a written assignment.

J Israel & H Tajfel, The Context of Social Psychology, Academic Press, 1972; M Billig, Arguing and Thinking: A Rhetorical Approach to Social Psychology, CUP, 1987; M. Cole, Cultural Psychology: A once and future discipline. Harvard University Press, 1996; K Deaux & G Philogene, Representations of the Social, Blackwell, 2001; R M Farr, The Roots of Modern Social Psychology, Blackwell, 1996; U. Flick, The Psychology of the Social. Cambridge University Press, 1998; C Fraser & G Gaskell, The Social Psychological Study of Widespread Beliefs, Clarendon Press, 1990S; Moscovici, Social Representations: Explorations in Social Psychology. Polity Press, 2000; S. Jovchelovitch, Knowledge in Context: Representations, community and culture. Routledge, 2007; H Tajfel, Human Groups and Social Categories; Studies in Social Psychology, CUP, 1981; M. Tomasello, The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition. Harvard University Press, 1999; L. Vygotsky Mind in Society, Harvard University Press, 1978.; J. Wertsch (ed.) Culture, Communication and Cognition. Cambridge University Press, 1985.

In addition, reading lists on specific topics will be distributed during the course.

A formal three-hour examination in the ST: three questions from a choice of 10 (100%).