Prowadzony w cyklu: 2024

Kod Erasmus: 14.2

Punkty ECTS: 5

Język: angielski

Organizowany przez: Wydział Socjologii

Social Psychology 480-ERS-1SPS

The main objective of the course is to provide students with a general background to the main content areas of social psychology, as well as an understanding of the methods and techniques used by social psychologists to study human social behavior.
The main goals of the course are:
*To build a knowledge-base of significant, classical studies in social psychology
*To enable students to describe, explain and evaluate research studies of social psychology
*To develop critical thinking skills

W cyklu 2024:

Study profile - general
Form of studies – full-time
Type of item – obligatory
Language of the course – English
Field and discipline of science: sociology
Year of study/semester – e.g. year 1/sem. 1

Number of hours of teaching classes divided into methods of conducting classes 30 hours of classes
Teaching methods – practial exercises, consultations
Form of completing the course – team /solo project, exam
ECTS points – number according to the study program
Balance of the student's workload - participation in classes 30 hours,
,participation in consultations – 10 hours, participation in the exam – 2 hours, preparation for exam – 30 hours, team project - 28 hours, preparation for classes 30 hours, total: 130 hours, which corresponds to 5 points. ECTS* (detailed instructions on how to allocate ECTS points for individual years of sociology students are provided below)
Quantitative indicators - e.g. student workload related to classes requiring the teacher's direct participation 70 hours, which corresponds to 2.7 ECTS points (rounded to one decimal place) and student workload that does not require the teacher's direct participation 60 hours, which corresponds to 2.3 points. ECTS = 5 points in total. ECTS*

Koordynatorzy przedmiotu

Małgorzata Skowrońska

Rodzaj przedmiotu

obowiązkowe

Tryb prowadzenia przedmiotu

w sali

Efekty kształcenia

Student:
KP6_WG1 knows and understands the definitions of the most important psychological terms, can identify specific problems undertaken by social psychology
KP6_WG10 can characterise the psychological theories concerning the place of the individual in the social structure
KP6_WG11
has knowledge of various types of individual and collective identities
KP6_WG13
understands the role of an individual in shaping various types of communities at various levels of the social structure taking into account the social psychology perspective
KP6_UW1
is able to use various typologies of social phenomena to describe and analyse them
KP6_UK2
is able to prepare an oral statement on a given topic related to the field of social psychology using appropriate sources.
KP6_KK1
is aware of main changes of terminology and methodological orientations within social psychology
KP6_KO1
is determined to improve his/her social skills preparing team project
KP6_KO2
is open to work in a group, being able to assume various roles in it, sees the need for managing teams creatively
KP6_KO3
is aware of the need to plan and organise while performing specific tasks ( especially team project)

Kryteria oceniania

Your grade will be based on your performance on the following criteria:
Final exam
Project (Presentation)
Participation (Activity points)
Attendance

Literatura

1. An Introduction to Social Psychology
 Gilovich, Keltner, & Nisbett (2012). Social Psychology (4th ed). W.W.Norton &Company New York London, Chapter 1: An Invitation to Social Psychology, pages: 3-38.
2. The Methods of Social Psychology
 Aronson, E., Wilson, T. D., Akert, R. M., & Sommers, S. R. (2016). Social psychology (6th ed.). Pearson, Toronto, Chapter 2, Methodology: How Social Psychologists Do Research , pages: 20-47
3. The Social Self

 Aronson, E., Wilson, T. D., Akert, R. M., & Sommers, S. R. (2016). Social psychology (6th ed.). Pearson, Toronto, Chapter 5, The Self: Understanding Ourselves in a Social Context, pages:106-135.

4. Social Cognition

 Gilovich, Keltner, & Nisbett (2012). Social Psychology (4th ed). W.W.Norton &Company New York London, Chapter 4: Social Cognition: Thinking about People and Situations, pages:109-153.

5. Social Attribution: Explaining Behavior

 Aronson, E., Wilson, T. D., Akert, R. M., & Sommers, S. R. (2016). Social psychology (6th ed.). Pearson, Toronto, Chapter 4, Social Perception: How we come to understand other people, pages: 74-104.

6. Emotions

 Gilovich, Keltner, & Nisbett (2012). Social Psychology (4th ed). W.W.Norton &Company New York London, Chapter 6, Emotion, pages: 195-227
 Salerno, J. M., & Peter-Hagene, L. C. (2013). The interactive effect of anger and disgust on moral outrage and judgments. Psychological science, 24, 2069-2078

7. Attitudes

 Aronson, E., Wilson, T. D., Akert, R. M., & Sommers, S. R. (2016). Social psychology (6th ed.). Pearson, Toronto, Chapter 6., Attitudes and Attitude Change: Influencing Thoughts, Feelings, and Behavior, pages: 136-170.

8. Influencing Others

 Gilovich, Keltner, & Nisbett (2012). Social Psychology (4th ed). W.W.Norton &Company New York London, Chapter 9, Social Influence, Pages: 303-345.
 Haslam, S. A., & Reicher, S. D. (2012). Contesting the “nature” of conformity: What Milgram and Zimbardo's studies really show. PLoS biology,10(11),e1001426

9. Relationships and Attraction

 Gilovich, Keltner, & Nisbett (2012). Social Psychology (4th ed). W.W.Norton &Company New York London, Chapter 10., Relationships and Attraction, pages: 247-393.

10. Aggression

 Aronson, E., Wilson, T. D., Akert, R. M., & Sommers, S. R. (2016). Social psychology (6th ed.). Pearson, Toronto, Chapter 11., Aggression: Why we hurt other people?, pages: 310-341.

11. Stereotyping, Prejudice and Discrimination I

 Gilovich, Keltner, & Nisbett (2012). Social Psychology (4th ed). W.W.Norton &Company New York London, Chapter 11., Stereotyping, Prejudice and Discrimination, 395-443.

12. Stereotyping, Prejudice and Discrimination II

 Fiske,Gilbert,&Lindzey (2010), Handbook of Social Psychology (5th ed., Vol. I), John Wiley &Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey, Chapter 26 Interpersonal Stratifications: Status, Power, And Subordination, pages: 941-982.
 Fiske, Ambivalent Stereotypes Support Inequality and Conflict - or Peace, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD2jX9sx9eY&t=26s

13. Prosocial Behavior

 Aronson, E., Wilson, T. D., Akert, R. M., & Sommers, S. R. (2016). Social psychology (6th ed.). Pearson, Toronto, Chapter 10., Why Do People Help? Pages: 282-309.