Culture and Political Psychology

A Societal Perspective

Thalia Magioglou

• Publisher: Information Age Publishing
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9781623963675
  9781623963682
• eBook ISBN:
  9781623963699
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: History & Theory in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

This book is perhaps the first systematic treatment of politics from the perspective of cultural psychology. Politics is a complex that psychology usually fails to understand— as it assumes a position in society that attempts to be free of politics itself. Politics is associated both with an everyday practice, and the dynamics of globalization; with the way group conflicts, ideologies, social representations and identities, are lived and co-constructed by social actors. The authors of the book address these issues through their research grounded in different parts of the world, on democracy and political order, the social representation of power, gender studies, the use of metaphors and symbolic power in political discourse, social identities and methodological questions. The book will be used by social and political psychologists but is also of interest to the other social sciences: political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists, educationalists, and it is at a level where sophisticated lay public would be able to appreciate its coverage. Its use in upperlevel college teaching is possible, and expected at graduate/postgraduate levels.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Culture and Political Psychology: A Societal Perspective
• Culture and Political Psychology: A Societal Perspective
• Copyright
• CONTENTS
• PREFACE: UNDERSTANDINGPOLITICAL PROCESSES: A New Arena for Cultural Psychology
• INTRODUCTION: SOCIETAL POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY IN PARIS
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• I: INTRODUCTION
• II: INTRODUCTION
• III: INTRODUCTION: Politics as Symbolic Power
• IV: INTRODUCTION
• V: CONFLICT IN EDUCATION
• ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS