NU:BE_PH_SOC Basics of Social Psychology fo - Course Information

BE_PH_SOC Basics of Social Psychology for Managers

Extent and Intensity

2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

Mgr. Romana Žihlavníková (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

Mgr. Romana Žihlavníková
Centre for Applied Psychology – Academic Department – NEWTON University

Timetable

each even Tuesday 13:30–16:40 Zoom.Praha3

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is offered to students of any study field.

Course objectives

The course introduces students to the study of social psychology, which is one of the basic (theoretical) psychological disciplines. The subject content is knowledge about interpersonal situations and relationships and about the ways of thinking, emotional experience and behaviour of an individual in a social context. The course emphasizes practical applications in a managerial context. The course builds on topics from introductory psychology and management disciplines and provides a cognitive basis for the teaching of some subsequent disciplines in which management issues are conceptualised in a social psychological context.
Course objectives: to introduce students to the terms of social psychology and their meaning, to teach students to understand and predict people's behavior in a social context, to support the ability to perceive the topics of social psychology in a wider managerial context, to apply knowledge focused on leading, evaluating and motivating people in practice.

Syllabus

1. Interpersonal relationships (concepts in social psychology, social aspects of life, the history of social psychology, links to other psychological and social sciences).
2. Social groups (types of social groups and their dynamics, macrosocial phenomena).
3. ⁠Methods of social psychology – theory (basic methods of social psychological research, the scientific method, correlational and causal relationships, research ethics).
4. ⁠Quantitative methods (correlational research, dependent/independent/mediating variables, experimental research, questionnaire surveys, the Likert scale).
5. Qualitative methods (interpretation of data analysis, observation, interviews and their stages, types of interviews, questions, focus groups).
6. Social identity and the self (socialisation, social cognition – adaptation, perception, social roles, social identity, individuation, social perception).
7. Issues of identity (genes, culture, gender – determinants of human behaviour, human identity, biological dispositions versus environmental influences).
8. Values, behaviour, attitudes (the relationship between values and attitudes, the structure and function of attitudes, possibilities for change and the formation of attitudes, prejudices, collective memory).
9. Institutions and organisations (society and its relationship to the group, primary, secondary and tertiary socialisation, social inclusion).
10. Social control (prosocial behaviour, social control, natural and formal authority, social manipulation, propaganda).
11. Sociometry and social networks (the nature of sociometry, small groups – communication networks, the role of the individual, leadership, sociograms, social networks).

Assessment methods

Examination (pres., dist.): takes the form of a written final test, and in remedial terms, an oral examination conducted in a contact manner or using the tools of long-distance electronic communication.

Language of instruction

English

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