Discourse and Social Psychology: Beyond Attitudes and Behaviour

By Jonathan Potter and Margaret Wetherell

Book Overview

Potter and Wetherell have genuinely presented us with a different way of working in social psychology. The books clarity means that it has the power to influence a lot of people ill-at-ease with traditional social psychology but unimpressed with (or simply bewildered by) other alternatives on offer. It could rescue social psychology from the sterility of the laboratory and its traditional mentalism - Charles Antaki, The Times Higher Education Supplement This book is the first systematic and accessible introduction to the theory and application of discourse analysis within the field of social psychology. Discourse and Social Psychology includes chapters on the

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803980558
• ISBN13: 9780803980556
• Release Date: June 1987
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 5.8"