Advanced Issues in Social and Cultural Psychology

Year
4
Academic year
2019-2020
Code
02036803
Subject Area
Psychology
Language of Instruction
English
Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face
Duration
SEMESTRIAL
ECTS Credits
4.0
Type
Elective
Level
2nd Cycle Studies - Mestrado

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

Lectures; seminars with invited specialists, group work, critical analysis, discussion and presentation of texts, practical activities.

Learning Outcomes

 

To be able of:

- understanding, analysing, discussing and using the theoretical approaches about the relations between psychology and culture, in the critical analysis of intercultural issues in current societies;

- using the theory of social representations for undestanding and analysing contemporary societal questions and problems, at differenet levels of analysis;

- analysing, interpret  and evaluate, based on a deep psychosocial knowledge, the processes of identity, cultural diversity, immigration and acculturation;

- using these knowledge as tools for a critical evaluation of concrete situations  and for the promotion of social inclusion, rights and democracy in the different social frameworks where they took place

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Introduction: Why “Social and Cultural Psychology”?

 

1. The study of social representations: From its foundations to current developments

 

2. Representations and attitudes towards human rights and humanitarian international law

 

3. Intercultural comparison of values

 

4. Identities and cultural diversity

 

5. Representations of colonial past and current intercultural relations

 

6. Immigration, acculturation processes, and citizenship

 

7. Psychology of peace and democracy

Head Lecturer(s)

Joaquim Manuel Pires Valentim

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Research work: 25.0%
Synthesis work: 25.0%
Frequency: 50.0%

Bibliography

 

Benet-Martínez, V., & Hong, Y. (Eds.) (2014). The Oxford handbook of multicultural identity. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Chryssochoou, X. (2003). Cultural diversity: Its social psychology. Oxford: Blackwell.

Doise, W. (2002). Human rights as social representations. London: Routledge.

Howarth, C., & Andreouli, E. (2017). The social psychology of everyday politics. London: Routledge.

Licata, L., & Heine, A. (2012). Introduction à la psychologie interculturelle. Bruxelles: De Boeck.

Lo Monaco, G., Delouve, S., & Rateau, P. (Eds.) (2016). Les représentations sociales. Bruxelles, Belgium: de Boeck.

Moghaddam, F. (2016). The psychology of democracy. Washington: APA.

Sammut, G., Andreouli, E., Gaskell, G., & Valsiner, J. (2015). The Cambridge handbook of social representations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Valentim, J. P., Licata, L., & Bobowik, M. (2018). International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 62. Special Issue: Colonial past and intercultural relations.