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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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TL;DR: The relationship between gift exchange and social structure is analyzed from the standpoint of the "gratitude imperative" and the treatment of benefit exchange as a technique for the regulation of shared guilt is treated.
Abstract: In the first section of this essay gift exchange is discussed in terms of its relevance for the development and maintenance of identity. The acceptance of a gift, it is suggested, is in fact an acceptance of the giver's ideas as to what one's desires and needs are. Gift giving as a mode of social control and expression of unfriendliness is considered. The relationship between gift exchange and social structure is analyzed from the standpoint of the "gratitude imperative." The essay is concluded with a treatment of benefit exchange as a technique for the regulation of shared guilt.
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TL;DR: In this article, social identification, self-categorization and social influence are discussed in the context of the European Review of Social Psychology (EPSP): Vol. 1, No.
Abstract: (1990). Social Identification, Self-Categorization and Social Influence. European Review of Social Psychology: Vol. 1, European Review of Social Psychology, pp. 195-228.
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TL;DR: While electric lights, telephones, automobiles, and television had to overcome some fear and suspicion at first, they quickly caught on as discussed by the authors, and new developments in the behavioral sciences with implications for child care, schooling, business, race relations, and international affairs have been less welcome.
Abstract: remedy, institutional lag. While speed of travel and power of destruction are multiplied by factors of ten or a hundred, family life, schools, communities, and nations tend to operate in traditional ways. Resistance to change is not uniform. While electric lights, telephones, automobiles, and television had to overcome some fear and suspicion at first, they quickly &dquo;caught on.&dquo; New developments in the behavioral sciences, with implications for child care, schooling, business, race relations, and international affairs have been less welcome.
437 citations
01 Jan 1987
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that much of the order we perceive in the world is there only because we put it there and that we impose such order is even more apparent when we consider the social world, in which institutions such as marriage, lying, and dating happen at all because the members of a society presume them to be.
Abstract: Undeniably, a great deal of order exists in the natural world we experience. However, much of the order we perceive in the world is there only because we put it there. That we impose such order is even more apparent when we consider the social world, in which institutions such as marriage, deeds such as lying, and customs such as dating happen at all because the members of a society presume them to be. D'Andrade (1984a:91) contrasts such culturally constructed things with cultural categories for objects such as stone, tree, and hand, which exist whether or not we invent labels for them. An entity such as marriage, on the other hand, is created by “the social agreement that something counts as that condition” (ibid.) and exists only by virtue of adherence to the rules that constitute it. Such culturally constituted understandings of the social world point up not only the degree to which people impose order on their world but also the degree to which such orderings are shared by the joint participants in this world, all of whom behave as though marriage, lying, and dating exist. A very large proportion of what we know and believe we derive from these shared models that specify what is in the world and how it works. The cognitive view of cultural meaning The enigma of cultural meaning, seemingly both social and psychological in nature, has challenged generations of anthropologists and stimulated the development of several distinctive perspectives (see Keesing 1974 for an early review).
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