Construction of Social Reality

Construction of Social Reality

Study Cycle: 1

Lectures: 30

Seminars: 30

Tutorials: 30

ECTS credit: 6

Lecturer(s): asist. dr. Marčič Renata, doc. dr. Lep Žan, Zaposleni/pogodbeni bodoči

The notion of social reality:
Defining social reality, theoretical models of social reality, characteristic phenomena and outcomes of social reality.

Social reality and psychological processes:
Socialization of perception and cognition, social cognition, biased cognition, constructing the self, social motivation, attitudes, decision-making and behaviour.

Social reality and social influence:
The relationship between the structure/dynamics of social reality and the phenomena of social influence, social motivation, and the working of the self.

Social reality and society:
Psychological theories related to society, societal psychology and analytic social psychology, critical (social) psychology, social-psychological aspects of societal processess.

Epistemology and methodology of social psychology:
Linking social reality with the epistemology of social psychology and science in general, epistemological, critical and contemporary (social) psychological approaches to science, methodology of social psychology .

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