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Social psychology (sociology)

About: Social psychology (sociology) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 18151 publications have been published within this topic receiving 907731 citations. The topic is also known as: Social psychology & sociological social psychology.


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01 Jan 1963

523 citations

Journal Article
TL;DR: In this paper, a framework for a theory of desistance from crime and an analytical strategy with which to examine desistance is presented. But the analysis is limited to the case of criminal desistance.
Abstract: This Article develops both a framework for a theory of desistance from crime and an analytical strategy with which to examine desistance. With respect to the former, an identity theory of the desistance from crime that is more cognitive and individualistic than some and more forward-looking than others is sketched out. This framework contributes to and complements existing theoretical arguments by building upon the work of others through integrating several diverse bodies of work that range from social psychology to collective movements in sociology. In this framework, offenders have “working selves” as criminal offenders with a set of preferences and social networks consistent with that self. In addition to the working self, or the self in the present, there is a future, or possible, self that consists both of desires as to what the person wishes or hopes to become (the positive possible self) and anxiety over what they fear they may become (the feared self). Persons are committed to their working self until they determine that the cost of this commitment is greater than the benefits. A perception that one may in fact turn out to become the feared self, a perception assisted by the linking of life failures, or what has been called the “crystallization of discontent,” provides the initial motivation to change the self. This initial motivation brings with it a change in preferences and social networks that stabilize the newly emerging self. This identity theory of desistance can be empirically developed by thinking about it in terms of a structural break in an individual-level time series of offending. This theory

521 citations

Book
16 Mar 2012
TL;DR: In this article, a variety of approaches to the problem of indeterminacies in human thought and behavior are discussed, including cognitive psychology, social psychology, organizational studies, sociology, and social anthroplogy.
Abstract: Ignorance and Uncertainty overviews a variety of approaches to the problem of indeterminacies in human thought and behavior. This book examines, in depth, trends in the psychology of judgment and decision-making under uncertainty or ignorance. Research from the fields of cognitive psychology, social psychology, organizational studies, sociology, and social anthroplogy are reviewed here in anticipation of what Dr. Smithson characterizes as the beginning of a "creative dialogue between these researchers." Ignorance and Uncertainty offers the conceptual framework for understanding the paradigms associated with current research. It discusses the ways in which attitudes toward ignorance and uncertainty are changing, and addresses issues previously ignored.

519 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, three models for the effects of social desirability on organizational behavior research results were developed for the effect of social desire on organizational behaviour research results and showed that social desire can act as an unmeasured variable that produces spurious correlations.
Abstract: Three models are developed for the effects of social desirability (SD) on organizational behavior research results SD can act as (a) an unmeasured variable that produces spurious correlations betw

518 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
20224
2021273
2020309
2019356
2018374
2017534