Social Psychology and Everyday Life - 2nd Edition by Darrin Hodgetts & Ottilie Stolte & Christopher Sonn (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

This ground-breaking and innovative textbook offers a uniquely global approach to the study of social psychology. Inclusive and outward-looking, the authors consciously re-orientate the discipline of social psychology, promoting a collectivist approach. Each chapter begins with an illustrative scenario based on everyday events, from visiting a local health centre to shopping in a supermarket, which challenges readers to confront the issues that arise in today's diverse, multicultural society. This textbook also gives a voice to many indigenous psychologies that have been excluded from the mainstream discipline and provides crucial coverage of the colonization experience.

By integrating core social psychology theories and concepts with critical perspectives, Social Psychology and Everyday Lifeprovides a thought-provoking introduction suitable for both undergraduate and postgraduate students of social psychology and community psychology. It can also be used by students in related subjects such as sociology, criminology and other social sciences.

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From the Back Cover

Offering a fresh, innovative approach, this international textbook encourages students to consider how social psychology can inform their understanding of the social world around them. Illustrative scenarios based on realistic everyday events, from shopping in a supermarket to taking a taxi, highlight just how relevant this subject is to tackling the issues that can arise in a diverse, multicultural society. By integrating core social psychology theories and concepts with more critical perspectives, Social Psychology and Everyday Life provides a valuable, broad, coherent and stimulating introduction that is suitable for all students interested in social psychology. The book also situates social psychology within the broader social sciences, and in particular scholarship on media, place, health, justice, indigeneity, immigration, and social change.

Review Quotes

A gift to students and established scholars alike. Hodgetts and colleagues have developed an account of social psychology that is rejuvenating and inspiring. This is social psychology as it should be.
Kieran O'Doherty, University of Guelph, Canada

As a social psychologist, former child refugee, and as an adult belonging to several stigmatised groups, I have struggled to recommend social psychology textbooks to my students. Too often they treat decolonisation, social and material justice as tagged-on perspectives, providing no more than basic lip-service to their existence and influence. I have often thought that I might be searching for the impossible. This book has made the impossible possible. It will be responsible for educating and transforming future generations of social psychology students.
Masi Noor, Keele University, UK

This book takes a revolutionary approach to social psychology. It disrupts the hegemony of traditional social psychology in a constructive and an enlightened manner. The writing style and level of academic scholarship, coupled with the underlying ideology of each chapter, are so superlatively good that I would not hesitate to recommend this text to academics and students around the world.
Maboe Mokgobi, Monash South Africa, South Africa

About the Author

DARRIN HODGETTS is Professor of Societal Psychology at Massey University, New Zealand. Prior to this appointment, Darrin held posts in Community Health (Memorial University, Canada), Psychology and Media and Communications (London School of Economics and Political Science, England), and Community Psychology (University of Waikato, New Zealand). Darrin's research interests revolve around issues of poverty and homelessness. He is particularly interested in addressing health inequalities and promoting sustainable livelihoods. His recent collaborative books include Urban Poverty and Health Inequalities, The Sage Handbook of Applied Social Psychology, and Asia-pacific Perspectives on Intercultural Psychology. Darrin is co-editor of the Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology.

OTTILIE STOLTE is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Waikato, New Zealand where she teaches social, societal and community psychology. Particular research interests include poverty, precarity, homelessness, health inequalities and urban sustainability. In her research, Ottilie seeks to understand contemporary psychological issues within the broader social, cultural and political contexts of people's everyday lives. As Principal Investigator for the Maori Psychology Research Unit, Ottilie works alongside Maori and Indigenous colleagues and students to advance inclusive, relational and contextualized scholarship in psychology. Ottilie is an associate member of the Ending Poverty & Inequalities Research Cluster (EPIC), and shares a commitment towards social justice, equity and human flourishing.

CHRISTOPHER SONN is an Associate Professor with the College of Health and Biomedicine and Fellow with the Institute for Health and Sport at Victoria University, Melbourne. He is the course chair of the Master Applied Psychology (Community Psychology) and research leader for the Community Identity and Displacement research group. His research involves understanding and elevating the voices of individuals and groups who are marginalized or excluded through forms of symbolic violence such as racism and sexism. Christopher has expertise in community and liberation psychology and qualitative and creative methodologies.

NEIL DREW is Director of the Australia Indigenous HealthInfoNet (www.healthinfonet.ecu.edu.au). His key interests are health knowledge exchange practices and research in cultural contexts. Prior to joining the HealthInfoNet, Neil was Professor and Dean within the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Notre Dame Australia Fremantle Campus and spent four years as Deputy Head of Campus and Head of Academic Programs on the University Campus of Reconciliation in Broome Western Australia. Neil has a background in social and community psychology with over 25 years of experience working with a diverse range of communities and groups.

STUART CARR is Professor of Psychology in the Industrial and Organizational (I/O) Psychology Program at Massey University, New Zealand. Stuart co-facilitates the Ending Poverty and Inequality Cluster (EPIC), which includes a focus on transitions from precarious labour to decent work and living wages. Intersecting with EPIC is Project GLOW (Global Living Organizational Wage), a multi-country, multi-generational, interdisciplinary study of the links between decent wages (in purchasing power parity), and sustainable livelihoods for the eradication of poverty - the primary UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG1). Stuart's professional focus is Humanitarian Work Psychology, which has included a Global Task Force for Humanitarian Work Psychology, promoting decent work aligned with local stakeholder needs, in partnership with global development agencies.

LINDA WAIMARIE NIKORA is Professor of Indigenous Studies at the University of Auckland where she is also Co-Director of Nga Pae o te Maramatanga, New Zealand's Maori Centre of Research Excellence. Previously, Linda was the Director of the Maori & Psychology Research Unit at the University of Waikato in New Zealand. Her specialty interest is in the development of indigenous psychologies to serve the interests and aspirations of indigenous peoples. She has been involved in research about Maori flourishing, Maori ways of mourning (tangi), traditional body modification (moko), ethnic status as a stressor, Maori identity development, cultural safety and competence, Maori mental health and recovery, social and economic determinants of health, homelessness, relational health, social connectedness and human flourishing.
DARRIN HODGETTS is Professor of Societal Psychology at Massey University, New Zealand. Prior to this appointment, Darrin held posts in Community Health (Memorial University, Canada), Psychology and Media and Communications (London School of Economics and Political Science, England), and Community Psychology (University of Waikato, New Zealand). Darrin's research interests revolve around issues of poverty and homelessness. He is particularly interested in addressing health inequalities and promoting sustainable livelihoods. His recent collaborative books include Urban Poverty and Health Inequalities, The Sage Handbook of Applied Social Psychology, and Asia-pacific Perspectives on Intercultural Psychology. Darrin is co-editor of the Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology.

OTTILIE STOLTE is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Waikato, New Zealand where she teaches social, societal and community psychology. Particular research interests include poverty, precarity, homelessness, health inequalities and urban sustainability. In her research, Ottilie seeks to understand contemporary psychological issues within the broader social, cultural and political contexts of people's everyday lives. As Principal Investigator for the Maori Psychology Research Unit, Ottilie works alongside Maori and Indigenous colleagues and students to advance inclusive, relational and contextualized scholarship in psychology. Ottilie is an associate member of the Ending Poverty & Inequalities Research Cluster (EPIC), and shares a commitment towards social justice, equity and human flourishing.

CHRISTOPHER SONN is an Associate Professor with the College of Health and Biomedicine and Fellow with the Institute for Health and Sport at Victoria University, Melbourne. He is the course chair of the Master Applied Psychology (Community Psychology) and research leader for the Community Identity and Displacement research group. His research involves understanding and elevating the voices of individuals and groups who are marginalized or excluded through forms of symbolic violence such as racism and sexism. Christopher has expertise in community and liberation psychology and qualitative and creative methodologies.

NEIL DREW is Director of the Australia Indigenous HealthInfoNet (www.healthinfonet.ecu.edu.au). His key interests are health knowledge exchange practices and research in cultural contexts. Prior to joining the HealthInfoNet, Neil was Professor and Dean within the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Notre Dame Australia Fremantle Campus and spent four years as Deputy Head of Campus and Head of Academic Programs on the University Campus of Reconciliation in Broome Western Australia. Neil has a background in social and community psychology with over 25 years of experience working with a diverse range of communities and groups

STUART CARR is is Professor of Psychology in the Industrial and Organizational (I/O) Psychology Program at Massey University, New Zealand. Stuart co-facilitates the Ending Poverty and Inequality Cluster (EPIC), which includes a focus on transitions from precarious labour to decent work and living wages. Intersecting with EPIC is Project GLOW (Global Living Organizational Wage), a multi-country, multi-generational, interdisciplinary study of the links between decent wages (in purchasing power parity), and sustainable livelihoods for the eradication of poverty - the primary UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG1). Stuart's professional focus is Humanitarian Work Psychology, which has included a Global Task Force for Humanitarian Work Psychology, promoting decent work aligned with local stakeholder needs, in partnership with global development agencies

LINDA WAIMARIE NIKORA is is Professor of Indigenous Studies at the University of Auckland where she is also Co-Director of Nga Pae o te Maramatanga, New Zealand's Maori Centre of Research Excellence. Previously, Linda was the Director of the Maori & Psychology Research Unit at the University of Waikato in New Zealand. Her specialty interest is in the development of indigenous psychologies to serve the interests and aspirations of indigenous peoples. She has been involved in research about Maori flourishing, Maori ways of mourning (tangi), traditional body modification (moko), ethnic status as a stressor, Maori identity development, cultural safety and competence, Maori mental health and recovery, social and economic determinants of health, homelessness, relational health, social connectedness and human flourishing.