This work brings together the range of theoretical issues which underpin social psychology together with social experience. Topics focused on include: "psychology and science"; descriptive and social theories; and the social and political uses and abuses of social psychology. The student is also introduced to the questions surrounding social psychology: What constitutes valid argument and research?; what should be its aims, scope and subject matter?; to what extent is social psychology part of the network which regulates and defines society? This book is published as a course book for the Open University Course "Social Psychology" (D317).
