PdF:SODC016 Applied Social Psychology 1 - Course Information

SODC016 Applied Social Psychology 1

Extent and Intensity

0/0/0. 7 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
In-person direct teaching

Teacher(s)

Mgr. Tomáš Kohoutek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. et Mgr. Jan Mareš, Ph.D. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

Mgr. et Mgr. Jan Mareš, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology – Faculty of Education
Supplier department: Department of Psychology – Faculty of Education

Prerequisites

The course is designed as a compulsory optional in the PhD study programme of Social Education.

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is offered to students of any study field.

Course objectives

The course objective is to analyze the human psyche in the context of educational activities. Emphasis is placed on thorough acquisition and critical evaluation of a partial topic in the field of social psychology, which is related to the creation of a dissertation and the overlap into non-academic practice.

Learning outcomes

The PhD students will be able to: - define terms of Social Psychology in relation to their application in Social Education; - explain theoretical and methodological background of Social Psychology in the framework of dissertation; - design an experiment to explain problematic issues of social behavior in educational reality, - predict the behavior of people in small and large social groups, - apply the acquired knowledge in the interdisciplinary overlap of the social sciences, - assess the benefits of studying Social Psychology for their own studies (Social Education) and for their dissertation.

Syllabus

• 1. Characteristics of the field of social psychology. Problems of social psychology research. Social cognition as one of the key topics of the field. Different approaches to social psychology. 2. Theoretical principles of social cognition, theory of social identity, theory of social representations, discursive psychology. 3. Attitudes and their social significance in the educational context. 4. Attribution processes and their significance in the educational context. 5. Self and identity. Socio-cognitivist approaches to self and identity. 6. Prejudices, stereotypes and social perceptions in the school environment. 7. Ideology, social identity and social cognition in the process of education. 8. Individual and social aspects in research. Experiments in social psychology.

Literature

required literature
• Sociální psychologie. Edited by Jozef Výrost - Ivan Slaměník. 2., přepracované a rozší. Praha: Grada, 2008, 404 stran. ISBN 9788024714288. info
• AUGOUSTINOS, Martha, Iain WALKER and Ngaire DONAGHUE. Social cognition : an integrated introduction. 2nd ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2006, vii, 364. ISBN 076194219X. info
• Sociální psychologie : moderní učebnice sociální psychologie. Edited by Miles Hewstone - Wolfgang Stroebe, Translated by Dagmar Brejlová - Pa. Vyd. 1. Praha: Portál, 2006, 769 s. ISBN 8073670925. info

recommended literature
• ARONSON, Elliot and Robin M. AKERT. Social psychology. Edited by Timothy D. Wilson. 8th ed., international ed. Boston: Pearson, 2013, xxix, 538. ISBN 9780205918027. info
• ZIMBARDO, Philip G. Moc a zlo : sociálně psychologický pohled na svět. Edited by Jiří Fiala - Martina Klicperová-Baker. Praha: Moraviapress, 2005, 199 s. ISBN 8086181804. info
• Applied social psychology. Edited by Marilynn B. Brewer - Miles Hewstone. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2004, x, 357. ISBN 1405110678. info
• The handbook of social psychology. Edited by Gardner Lindzey - Elliot Aronson. 2nd ed. Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1969, xiv, 786. info
• The handbook of social psychology. Edited by Gardner Lindzey - Elliot Aronson. 2nd ed. Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1969, xiii, 978. info
• The handbook of social psychology. Volume II., Research methods. Edited by Gardner Lindzey - Elliot Aronson. 2nd. ed. Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1968, xv, 819 s. info

Teaching methods

Lecture, seminar, discussion, self-study, feedback evaluation.

Assessment methods

Colloquium: elaboration of a reflective report from an educational practice or essay (approx. 10 pages) on a topic in social psychology. This report or essay is anchored in the research issues of dissertation topics.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further Comments

The course is taught annually.

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