This is a major textbook in social psychology which deliberately adopts a critical, unconventional approach.

Until recently social psychology seemed to have escaped relatively lightly from the climate of critical questioning which has characterized other areas of the social sciences. But this has changed: it is now possible to identify a clear forum of challenge, which could be described as "critical social psychology."

Social Psychology draws upon and consolidates this new current of thinking, while at the same time providing a wide-ranging and critical introduction to...