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social psychology

social psychology noun: the interplay between the individual and society.

Noun

social psychology (countable and uncountable, plural social psychologies)

  1. The interplay between the individual and society.
    • Before we discuss our two main objectives, however, and present illustrations and our specific hypotheses, an overview of social movements and their social psychology will help put our ideas in the broader context to which they are directed.2000, Sheldon Stryker, Timothy Joseph Owens, Robert W. White, Self, Identity, and Social Movements, →ISBN, page 191
    • Georg Simmel (1902) pointed out that the money economy pervasive in a city fosters individualism, blasé attitudes, and secondary relations, thus linking urbanism with a particular social psychology.2006, Mohammad Qadeer, Pakistan - Social and Cultural Transformations in a Muslim Nation, →ISBN
  2. The study of how people and groups interact.

social psychology meaning in Tamil

social psychology in Tamil

சமூக உளவியல்

Forms of social psychology

pluralsocial psychologies

Questions about social psychology

What does social psychology mean?
Social psychology means the interplay between the individual and society.
What is social psychology in Tamil?
Social psychology in Tamil is சமூக உளவியல். See Social psychology meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is social psychology?
Social psychology is a noun.
What is the plural of social psychology?
The plural of social psychology is social psychologies.

Words near social psychology in the dictionary

  1. social project management
  2. social promotion
  3. social promotions
  4. social proof
  5. social psychologies
  6. social psychology
  7. social realism
  8. social recruiting
  9. social responsibilities
  10. social responsibility
  11. social roll

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