Social Psychology: Conflicts and Continuities - Softcover

Howitt, Dennis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0335098827 ISBN 13: 9780335098828

Publisher: Open University Press, 1989

Synopsis

Emphasises the underlying ideas and intellectual debates in social psychology. It explores fundamental disagreements about what sorts of theories, what sorts of research methods, what sorts of issues, questions and answers are right for social psychology.

About this title

About the Author:

Kerry Sheldon is Lecturer in Psychology and Criminology at the University of Gloucestershire. She trained in investigative psychology at the University of Liverpool before obtaining her PhD in psychology at the University of Sciences at Loughborough University. In between these, she worked for the probation service in sex offender treatment where she first encountered Internet sex offenders. She has substantial publications in the field of sex offending and the Internet.

Dennis Howitt is reader in Applied Psychology in the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University. he is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and a chartered psychologist. His books in the field of crime and sex abuse include paedophiles and Sexual Offences Against Children (Wiley, 1995), Crime, The Media and the Law (Wiley, 1998) and Child Abuse Errors (Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1992). He is author of Introduction to Forensic and Criminal Psychology (2nd edition, Pearson Education, 2006). He has published books in the field of race with Kwame Owusu-Bempah including Psychology Beyond Western Perspectives (British Psychological Society, 2000) and The Racism of Psychology (Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1994). Amongst his well-known methods textbooks with Duncan Cramer are Introduction to Statistics in Psychology (4th edition, Pearson Education 2008). Introduction to SPSS in Psychology (4th Edition, Pearson Education 2008) and Introduction to Research Methods in Psychology (2nd edition, Pearson Education 2008).

About this edition

• Publisher: Open University Press
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0335098827
• ISBN 13: 9780335098828
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208