Introduction to Critical Social Psychology

List of boxes vii Acknowledgements viii The Critical Context 1(16) What is critical social psychology criticizing? 1(2) Stories of class and privilege 3(2) Society, knowledge and subjectivity 5(6) What's in this book? 11(6) Part I Mind and Society 17(114) Social Cognition Critics 19(27) Early critical work in social psychology 20(4) The crisis in social psychology 24(8) Contemporary social cognition 32(10) Application 42(1) Conclusion 43(3) Marxist Critics 46(24) Marxist theory: basic ideas and recent developments 47(8) Ideology and discursive, critical and rhetorical psychology 55(6) Foucault's theoretical development and critique of Marx 61(5) Application 66(1) Conclusion 67(3) Psychoanalytic Critics 70(28) Freud's psychoanalysis and Klein's object relations theory 71(3) Hollway: object relations in critical work 74(5) Parker and Billig's psychoanalytic cultures 79(8) Post-structuralism and psychoanalysis: Lacan and others 87(6) Application 93(2) Conclusion 95(3) Feminist Critics 98(33) What is feminist psychology? 99(4) Sexism and the legitimation of gender inequalities 103(4) Heterosexism and lesbian and gay psychology 107(4) Eating disorders and the body 111(6) Postmodern feminists: contemporary debates 117(5) Feminism and relativism 122(6) Application 128(1) Conclusion 128(3) Part II Resolutions and Dilemmas 131(118) Subjectivity Critics 133(33) Some philosophical explorations of subjectivity 135(13) Critical psychology and subjectivity 148(14) Application and intervention 162(1) Conclusion 163(3) Discourse Critics 166(32) Discourse, psychology and the individual 167(7) Discourse and construction 174(9) Rhetoric and ideological dilemmas 183(10) Applications 193(1) Conclusion 194(4) Postmodern Critics 198(30) Postmodern theories 199(11) Postmodernism, deconstruction and critical social psychology 210(5) Postmodern knowledge and the realism/relativism debate 215(8) Application 223(1) Conclusion 224(4) Integration and Subversions 228(21) Critical assumptions 228(7) Critical practice 235(2) Critical evaluations 237(9) Conclusion: looking to the future 246(3) References 249(20) Index 269