Sociology and decision-making processes

2024/2025

Academic Year

ENG

Instruction in English

6

ECTS credits

Delivered at:

Department of Sociology

Course type:

Compulsory course

When:

2 year, 1, 2 module

Instructor

Eritsyan, Ksenia

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course covers broad range of social psychology topics from both theoretical and applied perspective. The course would be focused on classical social psychology issues such us interpersonal perception and communication, cultural differences, interpersonal and intergroup influences. It would also include several notable applications of social psychology to such issues as judgment and decision making, health and illness and internet communications. The current state of art and emerging initiatives in modern social psychology, including open science movement would be discussed in details.

Learning Objectives

• Ability to undertake research, including problem analysis, setting tasks and objectives, identification of the research object and subject, of research methods as well as assess the quality of the conducted research
• Ability to analyze socially significant problems and processes with impartiality and scientific objectivity
• Ability to solve problems in professional practice based on analysis and synthesis

Expected Learning Outcomes

• Apply social psychology theories to understand different social problems on group, organization and society level
• Explain specific theories of social psychology and use that theory to interpret and predict behavior in specific social situations.
• Know and ready to use the effective communication strategies on interpersonal and group level
• Know basic principles of social psychological interventions development on the group and community levels
• Review and evaluate published works, their strengths and limitations at a basic level

Course Contents

• Introduction
• Social influence
• Groups
• Social behavior and relationships
• Decision-making, judgment and problem solving

Assessment Elements

• Seminar participation
  Seminar class absence and retakes ● Students are responsible for notifying the teacher of their absence due to an extenuating circumstance or illness prior to the missed class (by email or in person). ● Classes missed due to illness or an extenuating circumstance are excluded from the calculation of accumulated grade. ● Students who missed more than 6 seminar hours due to illness or an extenuating circumstance have to provide home assignments for missed seminars in a written form not later than 2 weeks before the final examination. ● Assignments, requirements and recommendations are provided individually by email upon request from the student.
• Project Work
• Exam test

Interim Assessment

• 2024/2025 2nd module
  0.4 * Exam test + 0.3 * Project Work + 0.15 * Seminar participation + 0.15 * Seminar participation

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• DeLamater, J. D., & Collett, J. L. (2019). Social Psychology (Vol. Ninth edition). New York, NY: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1753380

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Ward, A., & DeLamater, J. D. (2013). Handbook of Social Psychology (Vol. Second edition). New York: Springer. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1074048

Authors

• Ильина Мария Ивановна
• SINYAVSKAYA YADVIGA EDUARDOVNA
• ERITSYAN KSENIYA YUREVNA