Social Psychology – I

Paper Code: 
PSY 314
Credits: 
3
Contact Hours: 
45.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

1. To enable students to appreciate how individual behavior is influenced by social and cultural contexts.

2. To enable students to develop an understanding of functioning of dyads, groups and organization.

3. To understand the unique features of the Indian socio-cultural context.

4. To understand how social problems can be analyzed in terms of various social psychological theories.

9.00
Unit I: 
Nature and Scope of Social Psychology Social Psychology
9.00
Unit II: 
Person Perception :

 Impression Formation; Impression Management; Attribution with Special References to Self Biases

9.00
Unit III: 
Social Relationships :

Nature, Types, Theories - Reinforcement, Social Exchange and Cognitive; Social Learning, Situational Learning

9.00
Unit IV: 
Attitude

 Nature, Formation and Change; Measurement, Attitudes as an Effective Social Process.

9.00
Unit V: 
Group Behavior

Structural and Functional Properties; Group Formation;  Process, Types,  Effectiveness, Group Ideology.

Essential Readings: 

Ø Baron, R.A. and Byrne, D (1994). Social Psychology : Under Standing Human Interaction. ND Prentice Hall.

Brigham, J.C (1991). Social Psychology. NY : Harper Collins.

Ø Feldman, R.S. (1995). Social Psychology : N.J. Prentice Hall.

Ø Fisher, R.J (1982). Social Psychology: An Applied Approach. NY: St. Martin’s.

Ø Hewstone M., Strocbe, W. and Stephenson, G.M. (1996), Introduction to Social Psychology. NY : Blackwell.

                

References: 

Ø Akolkar, V.V. (1960). Social Psychology. Asia Publication House, Mumbai.

Ø Bickman, L., and Rog. D.J. (1997). Handbook of Applied Social Research. Thousand Oaks : Sage.

Ø Hollander, E.P. (1967). Principles and Methods of Social Psychology. London : Oxford University Press.

Ø Mathur, S.S. (1980). Social Psychology. Vinod Pustak Mandir, Agra.

Ø Misra, G. (Ed.), (1990). Applied Social Psychology in India. ND : Sage.

Ø Oskamp, S. (Ed) Applied Social Psychology. Annual Vol. 1 to update : Sage Publications.

Ø Raven, B.H. and Rubin, J. Z. (1983). Social Psychology. NT : John Wiley.

Ø  RW Brisling (Ed.) Applied Cross Cultural Psychology. Vol. 14 Thousand Oaks : Sage.

Ø Saks, M.J. and Krupat, E. (1988). Social Psychology and its applications. Harper and Row, New York.

Ø Semin, R.G. and Fiedler, K. (Eds) (1996). Applied Social Psychology. London : Sage.

Ø Sinha D. (1990). Interventions for development out of Poverty.

Ø Spears, R., Oakes, P.J. , Ellemers, R.,  and Haslam, A. (1997). The Social Psychology of Stereotyping and Group Life. Oxford : Balckwell.

Academic Year: 
2017-18
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