Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Social Psychology an interesting career-related topic

The last year, I discoursed about Social Psychology. In this moment, I told my classmates what is it? And now, I tell to you:

The Social Psychology is the study of how social conditions affect human beings. Scholars in this field are generally either psychologists or sociologists, anyway all social psychologists employ both the individual and the group as their units of analysis. Despite their similarity, the disciplines also tend to differ in their respective goals, methods, and terminology. They also favor separate academic journals and societies. It’s an interdisciplinary area like biophysics and cognitive science.

The psychologists, who study social psychology, are interested in such topics as attitudes, social cognition, cognitive dissonance, social influence, and interpersonal behaviours such as altruism and aggression.

Instead, the sociologists work focused on the behaviour of the group, and thus examines such phenomena as interactions and exchanges at the micro-level, group dynamics and group development, and crowds at the macro-level.

So, Psychology and Sociology aren’t the same because p
sychologists are interested in the immediate social situation, and the interaction between person and situation variables. On they other way, the sociologists are interested in the individual and the context of larger social structures and processes, such as social roles, race and class, and socialization.

What can I do if I’m a Social Psychologist?

When you’re a Social psychologist you can work in different places, for example you can do researches about social memory, study other countries, and a lot of diverse activities.

Well, by to respond your question, I’ve thought about three websites connected to this particular topic, they’re influential journals:


Psychology:

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

http://www.apa.org/journals/psp/


Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
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http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/622874/description#description


Sociology:

Social Psychology Quarterly.

http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/asoca/spq


Also, you can found information about Society of Experimental Social Psychology and different journals if you click here:


http://www.sesp.org/


http://www.socialpsychology.org/journals.htm


See you,


Bye =)

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

An useful Web Site

Hi!

I hope that you’re fine; today I want to tell you about a Web Site, which it could be very useful for you, since you can resort them when you need help with yours home works.

I chose this Web Site because I believe that it’s very good and it gives very good information for to realize different works.

The first of them is American Psychology Association, better acquaintance as APA. In this Web Site, you can find a lot of publications, different topics about my area of study and information about other associations around the world.

If you’re interested in knowing more about APA, please click here:

http://www.apa.org/

Likewise, there is a Program called APA Help Center, where also you can find information about articles, featured topics –for example work & school or relationships & family – reporters and the most new thing is: you can find a Psychologist in your town, unfortunately only in USA or Canada. If you want to know more about APA Help Center, please click her:

http://apahelpcenter.org/

Finally, I want to tell you about EBSCO, which is a Web Site where you can find a lot of electronics journals for when you need to make a work at university. Please click here:

http://www.ebsco.com/home/

Well, I've to go. See you,

Bye =)

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

My last weekend…

Today I want to tell you about my last weekend, really it was very exhausting because I had to work all day. Yes, I work in Ripley Parque Arauco on Saturday and Sunday. Since the summer, specifically on the 11th February of this year, I work there. In the first place that I worked, it was in the shoes department, then in the boys’ clothes department and now, if the supervisor approve me, I going to work in sport Department. I have to attend public, also I have to sell and rearrange the things, for example coats, jeans and t-shirts.

Every weekend, I start to work at eleven o’clock; then in the midday, I often order some things or I attend public. After, about two or three o’clock in the afternoon I usually have lunch. I finish work at about nine o’clock in the evening.
Well, I don't have any more tell you. See you another day.
=)