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Mumbai University BA Second year Social Psychology syllabus

Unit Structure:
1.0 Objectives
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Social Psychology: A working definition
1.2.1 Social Psychology : Scientific Nature
1.2.2 Focus on Individual Behaviour
1.2.3 Understand Causes of Social Behaviour and Thought
1.2.4 Brief History of Social Psychology : what we learn
from it?
1.3 Social Psychology on Cutting Edge
1.3.1 Cognition and Behaviour
1.3.2 Social Neuroscience
1.3.3 Role of Implicit Process
1.3.4 Social Diversity
1.4 Let us sum up
1.5 References
1.0 OBJECTIVES :
By the end of this unit you should be able to understand :
• The scientific nature of Social Psychology.
• Causes of social behaviour and thought.
• Understand current trends in the study of Social Psychology
such as role of cognition, social neuroscience, social
diversity, etc.

1.1 SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY : AN INTRODUCTION :

Human beings are essentially social beings. We stay with
other and our actions, thoughts, and feelings are affected by the
presence of others. At the same time we influence the behaviour of
other individuals. This consists of large amount of human
behaviour. Social psychology is a discipline that tries to understand
the human social behaviour. As is the case with psychology, even
social psychology has a past which is less than 100 years. This
course will help you to learn and answer many questions. You will
learn theoretical perspectives in various areas of social psychology.
You will understand that the scope of social psychology is wide and
it is ever widening. Social cognition, social perceptions, attitudes,
self, stereotype, prejudice and discrimination, interpersonal

attraction, close relations, social influence, pro-social behaviour,
aggression, group and individuals, applications of social
psychology, and many more are the topics of social psychology.
Most of the important topics are covered in this course. This course
will equip you to understand social behaviour and will also motivate
you to work in the area of social psychology and to become social
psychologist.
1.2 SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY : A DEFINITION :
Defining any field is a very difficult task. So is the case with
social psychology. Here are some examples:
According to Gordon Allport (1954) social psychology is
best defined as the discipline that uses scientific methods in “an
attempt to understand and explain how the thought, feeling and
behavior of individuals are influenced by the actual, imagined, or
implied presence of other human beings”.
Myers and Spencer (2006) define social psychology as the
“scientific study of how people think about, influence, and relate to
one another”.
Barron and Byrne (2007) defined social psychology as “the
scientific field that seeks to understand the nature and cause of
individual behaviour and thought in social situations”.
1.2.1 Social Psychology: It’s Scientific Nature :
For many students, the word science means physics,
chemistry biology, genetics, etc. They and many others would
wonder whether social psychology is science. To understand the
scientific nature of social psychology, we need to understand what
we mean by science. In reality science is not a label for certain
fields of advanced studies in natural sciences. It has set of values
and methodology. Accuracy, objectivity, scepticism, and openmindedness
are the values of science. The data collection, analysis
and inferences are drawn in most error-free manner. The collection
of data and interpretation is as free as possible from the human
biases. Only those scientific conclusions are accepted that have
been proved time and again. The views are open to change, no
matter how strong they are. The principles that are determinants of
science are Empiricism; Objectivity; Parsimony; and Converging
evidence. Empiricism means human experience, so the scientific
enquiry should be human experience and not beyond and without
it. Parsimony means simple explanations are preferred over
complex (also known as Occam’s Rezor). Considering all these
parameters, science differs from the non science.

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