Discourse and Social Psychology

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the discourses of municipal schools administrators, principals and teachers in two municipalities with contrasting local teacher evaluation and incentive policies and found that each policy entailed different meanings around teachers work and identity.

TL;DR: How these interactions construct the identity of people with dementia and their carers and locates them in a specific socio-political context is illuminated.

Abstract: The modern process of individualization takes place both at an institutional and an individual level. The challenge for the subject is to learn to personally manage this task in the context of institutional individualization. In this article, the contribution of social psychology to the analysis of this subject challenge is investigated in terms of the requirements of individualization.

TL;DR: In this article, an analysis of theory and research in social psychology reveals that while methods of research are scientific in character, theories of social behavior are primarily reflections of contemporary history, and the dissemination of psychological knowledge modifies the patterns of behavior upon which the knowledge is based.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors set the concern with intersubjectivity in theoretical context, sketches the organization by which it is grounded and defended in ordinary interaction, describes the practices by which trouble in understanding is dealt with, and illustrates what happens when this organization fails to function.

TL;DR: This article examined the connections between grammar and social organization via one of the most pervasive practices of speaking used in talk-in-interaction: yes/no type interrogatives and the turns speakers build in response to them.

TL;DR: The authors distinguishes a series of contingent and necessary problems that arise in the design, conduct, analysis and reporting of open-ended or conversational qualitative interviews in psychological research, including the deletion of the interviewer, the conventions for representing interaction, the specificity of analytic observations, the unavailability of the interview set-up and the failure to consider interviews as interaction.