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...

This new book proposes a way out of the crisis by letting go of the idea that psychology needs 'new' foundations or a new identity, whether biological, discursive, or cognitive. The psychological is not narrowly confined to any one aspect of human experience; it is quite literally 'everywhere'. Drawing on a range of influential thinkers including Michel Serres, Michel Foucault, AN Whitehead, and Gilles Deleuze, the book proposes a strong process-oriented approach to the psychological, which studies 'events' or 'occasions.'

A thorough and intelligent intro to the theory and method of Q from big name authors in a market where there is little competition.

This book breathes new life into the study of liminal experiences of transition and transformation, or `becoming'. Of transdisciplinary scope, it will appeal beyond psychosocial studies and social psychology to all scholars interested in the interface between experience and social (dis)order.