Publisher's Synopsis
What has psychology to say about major problems and debates in the "real world"? This textboook provides a psychological focus on eight issues of current social concern. Four themes organize the issues: the impact of mass consumption on the lives of ordinary people; the powerful role of the mass media; contemporary health debates over AIDS and eating disorders; and family life and family violence.;The aim is twofold: to make substantive issues in applied psychology accessible to undergraduate students; and to emphasize the problematic relationship between developing useful theories and accumulating research evidence, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, the social construction of these issues in a time of rapid social change.
