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Tag: Social psychology

  • Yankee Micro Social Psychology Part II

    Yankee Micro Social Psychology Part II

    Summary of Part I In Part I of my article, I described how initially the field of social psychology had deep roots in the socio-cultural traditions of Wundt, Royce, Baldwin, Cooley, Thomas and Mead. But by the beginning of World War I a shift towards individualism can be seen in the work first of the […]

  • Social Formation

    1. The overview If you often ask yourself “How can people believe those lies and deceptions?” when facts clearly indicate them to be untrue, you are not alone.  If you ask how so-called leaders can get away with a policy that guarantees disastrous, anti-human consequences, you are not alone either. In order to examine these […]

  • Yankee Micro Social Psychology Part I

    Yankee Micro Social Psychology Part I

    Orientation Developing a Marxist social psychology is a very important aspect of explaining what is going on within the individual in relation to society as well as what is going on in small group interactions between themselves. What we find when we examine social psychology in Yankeedom is what you might suspect, and that is […]

  • Crowds, Masses and Movements

    Crowds, Masses and Movements

    Orientation Why study crowds, masses and movements? It is tempting to imagine that as socialists we must know a great deal about crowds, masses, and in medieval thought individual meant inseparable, that is indivisible. People were defined as individuals by reference to the groups of which they were members. Group membership defined their very identity […]

  • Coming to Terms with a Lifetime of Trauma While in Prison

    I am a Black man in prison, and I want to talk about trauma. I want us all to be able to talk about trauma. I’m here because when I was a teenager and young man, I made many bad life choices involving drugs and violence. Living with the consequences of my actions is not […]

  • From Victimhood, to Victim, to Survivor and the Chains of Broken Systems Dealing with DV

    From Victimhood, to Victim, to Survivor and the Chains of Broken Systems Dealing with DV

    Special to the Newport (OR) News Times: Part three of Three-Part monthly series on domestic abuse Part One: Elephants in the Room: battered women are our sisters, mothers, friends, wives Part Two:  Stages of Grief, Disempowering the Abuser, Healing I’m in the courtroom at the plea bargain hearing – aka diversionary sentencing. My friend is […]

  • Four Wars Old

    Four Wars Old

    At least 90 Palestinian children have been killed by Israel’s assault on Gaza so far. This visual tella the story of Palestinian children in Gaza, who have experienced multiple assaults and multiple types of trauma since 2007, leading to a widespread mental health crisis among youth.

  • Self-Identity and Conscientious Non-Compliance

    Self-Identity and Conscientious Non-Compliance

    What of our highly active, frenetic daily lives in the early 21st century? Substantial effort is expended in developing marketable skills, in order to earn money and survive. Yet, within the oppressive constraints imposed on us every day, each person may nonetheless nurture an inner, contemplative space, perhaps ultimately unshareable but all-the-more uniquely individual for […]

  • Stages of Grief, Disempowering the Abuser, Healing

    Stages of Grief, Disempowering the Abuser, Healing

    When the bureaucratic well runs dry, you as survivor of DV are on your own, especially when family and friends are riding in their own Private Idaho. Preface: According to band member Kate Pierson, “Private Idaho” was inspired by the feeling of being trapped and isolated, like a prisoner in solitary confinement. The song originated […]

  • Elephants in the Room: battered women are our sisters, mothers, friends, wives

    Elephants in the Room: battered women are our sisters, mothers, friends, wives

    The most difficult aspect of writing about BWS — battered wife syndrome or intimate partner violence — is that as a man, I have to embrace reality: gender violence is not just fostered by the socialization of men to be more powerful than women, but for so many judges, lawyers, DAs and the public, this […]

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