Social Psychology, 3rd Edition

Found in this Section:

1. Overview of Changes

2. Chapter-by-Chapter Changes

• Expanded citations to include the latest research in the sociological study of social psychology from leading scholars in the field today.
• More examples of theories and research as applied to popular culture.
• Access to more “rich media” such as links to important websites.
• Each section now concludes with a summary review called “The Take-Away Message” in which students are asked to consider how they can employ the material in their personal and professional lives.
• The inclusion of more photos, graphs, and tables throughout the text. 

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2. Chapter-by-Chapter Changes

Chapter 1:

• A new box on human-animal interaction. The goal is to expand the notion of meaning – both giving meaning and personality to animals and to discuss the idea that animals may have some meaning-making capacity as well.

 Chapter 2 :

• A more extensive review of the concept of social norms under the components principle of the social structure and personality perspective.
• Introduces cognitive sociology to the chapter as a way to help bridge society to the individual for student, to explain the ways that society influences our thinking processes

Chapter 4:

• A more extensive review of how status is developed in everyday life as well as the effects of status on our identities.

 Chapter 5:

• Moved the review of Affect Control Theory from Chapter 10 into this chapter to better incorporate the notion of emotions in identity processes.
• The section on Dramaturgical Sociology now includes the concept of “facework.”
• A new box on the “College Student Identity” based on studies of different types of people who go to college.
• More discussion of the idea of “multiple identities” under the heading of “Situated and Multiple Selves.”

Chapter 6:

• Modified and expanded section on learning racism to focus on the concepts of racial and gender socialization more broadly as well as the concept of class identity. <section id="ch06lev2sec2"><title</title><section id="ch06lev3sec2"><title></title>
• Expanded review of the ways that children have been found to utilize agency and facework during their interactions with both adults and other children. 

Chapter 7:

• Expanded the notion of deviance and the social construction of deviance to include all sorts of norm violations - not just illegal behaviors.
• Extended the discussion of labeling theory to focus more on the identity processes that may lead some people to accept the deviant label more than others.
• Extended the review of Becker's deviant subcultures by reviewing norms that develop among these populations.
• Added a new box on deviance on college campuses called, “Crimes and Misdemeanors on Campus." The box reviews the different types of crimes most commonly found on campuses and the similarities and differences with those crimes found in society.

Chapter 8:

• Explore the creation of the “self-help” movement in the sociology of mental health.

Chapter 9:

• Updated chapter to make it more cogent and theoretical by focusing more on the concepts of values and attitudes, as well as theories that explain the construction of attitudes.
• Included a link to an unconscious bias test to give students a first-hand look at what these tests look like.
• Included the concept of Bonilla-Silva’s institutional racism in our discussion of unconscious bias.
• Moved the time-use material to a box in order to focus more on attitudes and values than in the most recent edition.
• Included a new section with a sociological model of attitudes and behavior which emphasizes the role of identities in explaining the link between attitudes and behaviors.
• A new section on values and moral identities in this chapter.

Chapter 10:

• Added to review of emotions by including material on the sociology of relationships. And have added materials on the sociology of relationships to each section, reflecting symbolic interaction, social structure and personality, and group processes approaches to the matter.
• Under the heading of symbolic interaction, we examine the different types of relationships we construct in society and factors associated with attraction.
• In the social structure and personality section, we examine community relationships, reviewing modern relationships in context of societal types.
• The group processes section includes a discussion of the exchange processes people utilize in mate selection.
• Expanded the discussion of the role of emotions in society by including the concept of moral emotions, those emotions that compel us to follow the rules of society.
• Expanded the review of the power-status approach to emotions.
• The equity theory of emotion is now included under the group processes section.

Chapter 11:

• Emphasize newer theories of collective behavior and social movements.
• Expanded the review of the role of collective identities in social movements.
• A new box is included designed to give students tips on how to develop a successful social movement.