Product Description: Why do we protest? What compels us to participate in crowd violence? Can gender discrimination in the workplace be explained in psychological terms?   From terrorist attacks to political uprisings, the social problems that have shaped the beginning of the new millenium can be explained using the theories and application of social psychology...read more

With the disintegration of state socialism, we are witnessing this eruption of enjoymnet in the re-emergence of aggressive nationalism and racism. With the lid of repression lifted, the desires that have emerged are from from democratic. To explain this apparent paradox, says Slavoj Žižek, socialist critical thought must turn to psychoanalysis.For They Know Not What They Do seeks to understand the status of enjoyment within ideological discourse, from Hegel through Lacan to these political and ideological deadlocks. The author’s own enjoyment of “popular culture” makes this an engaging and lucid exposition, in which Hegel joins hands with Rossellini, Marx with Hitchcock, Lacan with Frankenstein, high theory with Hollywood melodrama.

Product Description: In this collaboratively authored work, five distinguished sociologists develop an ambitious theoretical model of "cultural trauma"—and on this basis build a new understanding of how social groups interact with emotion to create new and binding understandings of social responsibility...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Each day, a new set of programs and technologies is created to help solve the social, economic, and political problems we face in our immediate and global communities. To successfully overcome these problems, it is essential that we comprehend the extent to which the human quality impacts the performance effectiveness of the social institutions, cultural activities, governance structures, economic, and political systems...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: 1st, 1996, American Psychological Association. Text on the potential role of behavioral analysis in society's largest social problems. Discusses applications for racism, sexism, child abuse, psychosis, social isolation, drug abuse, and more. 23 U.S. contributors.

Product Description: This volume brings together 13 original essays by psychologists who study adversity and share a commitment to finding workable solutions to some of the critical problems facing society. The structure of the book follows the human life cycle from infancy to adulthood.

Product Description: What is the relationship between internal states of psychological crisis and features of the external world? This book explores that question, bringing psychoanalytic thinking and practice to bear on the more public spheres of culture and politics.

Product Description: Is the well-being of a society dependent on the well-being of its citizenry? Does individual self-esteem play a causal role in chronic social problems such as child abuse, school drop-out rates, teenage pregnancy, alcohol and drug abuse, welfare dependency?In an attempt to answer these questions, the State of California established a task force on self-esteem and social responsibility in 1987...read more