SOCY 273 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Kurt Lewin, Fritz Heider, Leon Festinger

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

Document Summary

Not exclusively critical or traditional literature, but are used to recognize a range of critical social psychology has developed raising questions unasked in other traditional social psychology research. Both perspectives raise challenges about fundamental assumptions, methodological practices, and interpretations of data. Critical psychologists: ideas and assumptions should be exposed and have their implications identified. Having the individual as the main focus of study: social psychology though it is intended to be about the social, it is often about the individual. How the individual sees the world theories could be understood as reflecting assumptions. Being politically na ve not referring/referencing influence that issues of power/inequality have on people"s lives, leaves it unchallenged. Emphasize an alternative take on social phenomena: an emphasis on the ways in which our thoughts are tied, there is no merely academic debate and shaped by cultural/historical contexts. 1) clash of ideas is a feature of social psychology.