SOCY 273 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Implicit-Association Test, Discursive Psychology, Nikolas Rose

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 273
• Professor: Robyn Sattlink

Document Summary

Traditional psychology: attitudes as judgments, evaluations, or responses to people, events or objects; an internal mental object; measurable. Billig"s rhetorical approach: attitudes as socially situated; attitudes can be held on issues that are up for debate or controversial. Discursive/conversation analytic: attitude talk might accomplish something in interaction. Attitudes as social: attitudes expressed or held might reflect more widely held or circulated ideas or beliefs. Traditional psychology: some police offices thought it was extremely offense to them, while others didn"t see it in that way and just thought that it was a good video. Billig"s rhetorical approach: billig"s say that people are only reacting to this because it is a social situation, and therefore leads to a debate. Attitudes are generally about things that we can debate and not about facts! E. g. before people had different attitudes toward whether earth was round or flat, now people don"t have attitudes toward that because we know the fact.