Social Psychology for PRA (PRAD237)
This course examines the internal relation between the individual and the society, and the already ongoing process whereby the individual is constituted as a social human being. Positioned in-between the disciplines of sociology and psychology, it looks at the interaction between human attributes and social relations. Topics covered will include socialization; agents of socialization; the life course; sexual, racial, ethnic difference; the private and the public; the personal and the political; interpersonal and group relations; symbolic interaction; self-other relations; individualization through disciplinary institutions such as the university, the hospital, the prison; colonial and postcolonial constitution of self-other relations; identity and diaspora.