Winnifred R Louis, Gi K Chonu, Kiara Minto, Susilo Wibisono

The Psychology of System Change and Resistance to Change

A New Psychology of Intergroup Relations

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"For students, scholars, policy makers, and community members: understand social change, resistance, conflict, stagnation, and transformation, mapped with psychological levers accessible to everyone"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 357
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009603935
• ISBN-10: 1009603930
• Artikelnr.: 74319629

Autorenporträt

Winnifred R. Louis is a Professor in Psychology at the University of Queensland. Her research examines how social change occurs, and how identity and norms influence decision-making. She has published over 150 papers studying this broad topic in contexts from collective action and political violence to environmental choices and health.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction and overview; Part I. Intergroup Relations and Group
Processes: 1. Intergroup relations and processes: what they are and why
they matter; 2. Creating and resisting change as disadvantaged groups; 3.
How advantaged groups create, perpetuate and grow their advantage; 4.
Ideologies of system justification and system change, and how advantaged
group members become allies in change; 5. How norms change: processes of
conformity, dissent and innovation; Part II. The New Psychology of
Intergroup Relations: 6. Intergroup relations in the world ecological and
environmental context; 7. Interconnected resilience and resistance: how
systems resist change; 8. Societies as ecosystems: the psychology of
factions and subgroups; 9. Temporal cycles and the psychology of time; 10.
Beyond linear change: from shocks and disruption to inflection points and
emergence; 10. Leaders, artists, innovators: the psychologies of history
and imagination; 11. Conclusions, reflections and an agenda for the
psychology of transformative change.