Power, Interest and Psychology: Elements of a Social Materialist Understanding of Distress 9781906254773, 9781898059714

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It is the main argument of this book that emotional and psychological distress is often brought about through the operat

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The Power of Being Divisive: Understanding Negative Social Evaluations 9781503613904

Negative social evaluations, such as stigma or the backlash from scandal, are often perceived as harming those to whom t

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The Psychology of Social Status

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Applied social psychology : understanding and addressing social and practical problems [Third edition.] 9781483369730, 1483369730

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The Elements of Social Justice 0415557828, 9780415557825

First published in 1922, this title written by L. T. Hobhouse, British politician and one of the leading theorists of So

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Ethics and the materialist conception of history

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Energy and Structure: A Theory of Social Power 9780292762213

All social structures are essentially power structures dependent on energy. The concept of power and the role of energy

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Understanding Priming Effects in Social Psychology 9781462519293, 1462519296

How incidentally activated social representations affect subsequent thoughts and behaviors has long interested social ps

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Understanding Genocide: The Social Psychology of the Holocaust [1 ed.] 0195133625, 9780195133622, 9780195186185

When and why do groups target each other for extermination? How do seemingly normal people become participants in genoci

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Powerarchy: Understanding The Psychology Of Oppression For Social Transformation [Hardcover ed.] 1523086661, 9781523086665

Harvard-educated psychologist and bestselling author Melanie Joy exposes the psychology that underlies all forms of oppr

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