Summary
Contents
Subject index
How would you tackle problems related to prejudice at schools? How do you get the public to engage in health and pro-environmental activities? There are many students today who are interested in applying social psychological theory to such areas as law and order, health and environment, work and organizations, yet there is no easy path from theory to practice.
This comprehensive book introduces a new methodological approach, the PATH model, which offers a simple, systematic, step-by-step, easy-to-use methodology for applying social psychological theories to tackle a diversity of social issues. It helps and guides students to define a problem, conduct a theory-based analysis, develop an explanatory model, and then set up and follow through a research project. Applying Social Psychology: From Problem to Solution can be used by introductory level students upwards who want to understand how questions are formulated by social psychologists, and how these are followed through to explanation.
Key Features
Offers a new methodological model put forward by the authors (PATH model); Presents real world case studies; Includes end of chapter exercises; Provides interviews with leading social psychologists; Gives recommended further reading
This wide-ranging text is useful for any course in applied psychology at both the undergraduate and graduate level in such areas as health, forensic, environmental, industrial, and organizational psychology.
The Analysis Phase: Finding Theory-Based Explanations for Problems
The Analysis Phase: Finding Theory-Based Explanations for Problems
Contents
- Introduction
- Specifying the Outcome Variable
- Requirements for the Outcome Variable
- Relevance
- Specificity
- Continuity
- The Divergent Phase: Generating Explanations
- Free Association
- Interviews and Observations
- Social Psychological Theories
- Theoretical Approaches Under Investigation: The Case of Safe Sex Promotion
- A Topical Strategy
- A Conceptual Strategy
- A General Theory Strategy
- The Convergent Phase: Reducing the Number of Explanations
- Getting Rid of Redundant and Irrelevant Explanations
- Getting Rid of Invalid Explanations
- Getting Rid of Implausible Explanations
Introduction
In the Problem phase (Chapter 2) we have already explored some possible explanations for the problem. In the Analysis phase we continue the search for explanations. First, we define the outcome variable, that is, the variable that we want to change. Ideally the outcome variable should be phrased in terms of the desired end situation (for ...
- Loading...