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Social Psychology

Code: 100448 ECTS Credits: 6
2024/2025
Degree Type Year
2500257 Criminology FB 1

Contact

Name:
Blanca Callen Moreu
Email:
blanca.callen@uab.cat

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Prerequisites

The course will be taught from the perspective of the Sustainable Development Goals.

The language of the theorerical sessions will be Spanish. The language of the seminars will be: 11 and 12, to be confirmed (depending on the teacher); 13, Spanish. 


Objectives and Contextualisation

1. Demonstrate  understanding  about  social psychology foundations, their relationship with criminology and being able and critically reflect on them.
2. Being able to use criminological methods to analize data on crime, conflict and social control and being able to reflect on possible responses to these problems.
3. Knowing the management of basic tools for working in multidisciplinary teams.


Competences

  • Ability to analyse and summarise.
  • Drawing up an academic text.
  • Properly using the legal, psychological, pedagogical and sociological language.
  • Students must demonstrate they know the psychological and sociological concepts and foundations of criminology.
  • Using research methods in social sciences in order to diagnose criminality problems.
  • Working autonomously.
  • Working in teams and networking.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Ability to analyse and summarise.
  2. Applying the vocabulary of legal psychology.
  3. Drawing up an academic text.
  4. Laying the foundations for the psychological foundations of criminology.
  5. Using research methods in those psychological fields related with criminology.
  6. Working autonomously.
  7. Working in teams and networking.

Content

PART I. INTRODUCTION

1. What is Social Psychology? Social Psychology & Criminology

PART II. SOCIAL THOUGHT

2. Impression formation and Implicit theories of personality

3. Self-presentation and impression management

4. Cognitive biases and heuristics

  i. Information input/heuristics bias

  ii. Attribution processes biases

  iii. Information output biases

PART III. ATTITUDES AND SOCIAL INFLUENCE

5. Attitudes and influence(s) on them

6. Conformity and pressure for uniformity

7. Obedience and authority

8. Persuasion

PART IV. IDENTITY

9. Social categorization and Stereotypes

10. Individual identity and social identity

11. Intergroup relations, Prejudice and Social Discrimination

PART V. HUMAN RESOURCES AND WORK TEAMS

12. Cohesion

13. Leadership


Activities and Methodology

Title Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Type: Directed      
Lectures 19.5 0.78
Seminar (includes EV4) 19.5 0.78
Type: Supervised      
Mentoring 1 0.04
Type: Autonomous      
Exam (EV5) 5 0.2
Individual Work (EV1, EV2, EV3) 64 2.56
Team work (EV3) 41 1.64

EV1, EV2 (16% + 16% of the value of the final mark): Individual deliveries. Analysis of own experiences and/or readings applying theoretical content developed in the classroom and extended with bibliography.
EV3. Group delivery (18% of the value of the final mark): Judgement analysis.
EV4. Active and positive participation in group dynamics sessions (including in classroom seminar hours) (10% of the value of the final mark).
EV5. Final examination (40% of the value of the final mark): Multiple choice exam.

All subject materials (guide, session materials, submission requests, etc.) are reviewed to ensure non-sexist language use. Furthermore, the requested submissions must be adapted to a language that is neither sexist nor discriminatory on the grounds of belonging to any social group or category. 

Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.


Assessment

Continous Assessment Activities

Title Weighting Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
EV1 & EV2. Individual Work 32 0 0 2, 4, 3, 1, 6, 5
EV3. Group Work 18 0 0 2, 4, 3, 1, 6, 7, 5
EV4. Active and positive participation in group dynamics sessions 10 0 0 2, 4, 1, 7, 5
EV5. Exam 40 0 0 2, 4, 1, 6

A) CONTINUOUS EVALUATION SYSTEM

1. Evaluation model
Continuous evaluation so that the students, together with the teachers, can monitor their degree of achievement of the teaching objectives and competences. In this way, students take an active role in guiding and promoting their own learning process.
The students will present 2 individual and 1 collective learning evidences. In the seminar will be carried out collaborative work, susceptible to be evaluated. At the end of the semester students will do a multiple choice exam on the contents worked on in the subject.
Attendance is mandatory at 80%, except reasonable justification. Absences can only be justified for: a) illness (justified); b) force majeure and c) attendance at academic activities, authorised a priori by the teacher.

2. Conditions of the evaluation

  • Only evidences that follows the instructions contained in the evidence guide will be evaluated.
  • Students will be evaluable as long as they have carried out and submitted a set of activities, the weight of which is equivalent to a minimum of 2/3 of the total grade for the course. If the value of the activities carried out does not reach this threshold, the student will be considered as not evaluable.

3. Requirements to pass the subject

Attendance at lectures and seminars (minimum 80%, except for reasonable justification).

It is necessary to obtain a minimum of 4 in each one of the items of the evaluation (individual works, group work and final proof).

The maximum mark for the resit of final exam and the rest of evidences will be a pass mark (5).

4. Resit

In case of failing some of the evidences, students will have the opportunity of a second chance.

Professors will allow to repeat individual works during the teaching period once the teachers' feed-back has been received regarding the activities, according to the stipulated calendar.

In case of failing the final exam, there will be an opportunity to repeat the exam in the day fixed by the faculty.

5. Fraudulent conducts
If there is evidence of useof AI tools, copy or plagiarism in works or exams, the mark will be "0", loosing the right of reassessment. Considering the requirements to pass the course, this means failing the course.

6. Punctuality

Sessions start on time. Late arrival and early departure are not allowed, except reasonable justification.

B) SINGLE EVALUATION SYSTEM

1. Multiple choice test: (40% of the value of the final mark)

This test will include the contents of the theoretical classes as well as the materials and required bibliography indicated for each subject.

2. Report of analysis and reflection (35% of the value of the final mark), including:

i. A section on the impressions formation and management impressions

ii A section developing a manipulative experience

iii A section on psychosocial analysis of a judgment

This report will have a maximum of 10 pages and will be presented virtually in Moodle of the subject on the set date for the single evaluation.

For the development of this report, materials and bibliography provided in the "workshops" section of the Moodle must be used.

3. A synthesis of the material provided for performing group dynamics: (25% of the value of the final mark)

This synthesis will be done with the materials provided in the Moodle group dynamics section of the subject and will have to cover all the themes of the proposed 5 group dynamics.

The synthesis report will be presented virtually in the Moodle subject onthe set date for the single evaluation.

Resit: In the event of having to resit some of the evidences that make up the single evaluation system, they can be resited in the period established by faculty. 


Bibliography

Mandatory readings:

For each topic subject in the Moodle Theory section of the subject, the corresponding mandatory readings are provided.

Reccomended references:

Ibáñez, T. (Coord.). (1997). Psicología Social. Edicions de la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.

Feliu, J. (Coord.), Calsamiglia, A., Cubells, J., Martínez, L., Pallí, C., & Pujal, M. (2019). Bases Psicosociales en Criminología. UOC.

Complementary references:

Ibáñez, T. (Coord.). (1997). Psicología Social. Edicions de la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.

Feliu, J. (Coord.), Calsamiglia, A., Cubells, J., Martínez, L., Pallí, C., & Pujal, M. (2019). Bases Psicosociales en Criminología. UOC.

Bibliografia complementària:

Albert, L., & Simon, P. (1989). Las Relaciones Interpersonales. Herder.

Albert, L., & Simon, P. (1989). Las Relaciones Interpersonales. Manual Del Animador. Herder.

Barker, M., & Scheele, J. (2017). Queer. Una Historia Gráfica. Melusina.

Burr, V. (1995). Introducción al Construccionismo Social. Edicions de la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya i Proa.

Cardona, P. (2011). Cómo Desarrollar das Competencias de Liderazgo. EUNSA Ediciones Universidad de Navarra.

Feliu, J. (Coord.), Calsamiglia, A., Cubells, J., Martínez, L., Pallí, C., & Pujal, M. (2019). Bases Psicosociales en Criminología. UOC.

Gordo, A. J., & Linaza, J. L. (Eds.). (1996). Psicologías, Discursos y Poder. Visor.

Ibáñez, T. (Coord.). (1997). Psicología Social. Edicions de la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.

Ibáñez, T. (2001). Psicología Social Construccionista. Universidad de Guadalajara.

Íñiguez, L. (2001). Identidad: de lo Personal a lo Social: Un Recorrido Conceptual. En E. Crespo (Ed.), La Constitución Social de la Subjetividad (pp. 209-225). Catarata.

Moscovici, S. (1985). Psicología Social I y II. Ediciones Paidós.

Sánchez, E. (2000). Teoría del Liderazgo Situacional en la Administración Local: Validez del Modelo. Psicothema, 12(3), 435-439.

Shotter, J. (1993). Realidades Conversacionales. La Construcción de la Vida a través del Lenguaje. Amorrortu.


Software

The delivery of the evidence, the evaluation and feedback thereof will be carried out through the Moddle platform within the framework of the UAB Virtual Campus.


Language list

Name Group Language Semester Turn
(TE) Theory 1 Spanish second semester morning-mixed