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Understanding People by Trevor Butt is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.
What is Understanding People about?
Understanding People provides an overview and critique of current psychological assumptions about people and what differentiates them, and replaces them with a set of ideas taken from social constructionism. It begins with an examination of contemporary theories, then explores the critique of the social constructionists, before laying out the basis of an understanding of human action and behaviour, drawing on phenomenology and personal construct theory. Using everyday experience to illustrate the issues in personality theory (Is behaviour situation-specific? Why do we have a sense of self? Is there an unconscious?), this book will breathe life into an area of psychology that is so often arid, and, in the eyes of students, divorced from their world.
Who reads Understanding People?
It is typically read by readers engaging with religious study and devotional practice.
Common subject areas: religion, theology.
- Author
- Trevor Butt
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic; Bloomsbury
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780230000599
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- Psychology, Sociology, Social_sciences
- Rating
- 4.7 / 5 (141 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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