Introduction to social psychology

This important book aims to define social psychology when it defines the hypotheses it uses in research, and when it directs and coordinates its efforts. He resorts to two means to achieve this goal:The first: studying the psychological opinions of the scholars Auguste Comte, Durkheim, and Tarde.Second: Analysis of real mental life.The vast majority of the issues related to mental life, emotional life, and voluntary life that general psychology usually addresses are due, in their entirety or in some of their details, to the field of research in social psychology. Only the study of this science can allow us to identify elements that are independent of the influence of the group in every mental activity. Accordingly, this study attributes these elements to the characteristics of the human species or to the special qualities that characterize individuals.Social psychology studies psychological processes and their many relationships with social life. It emerged as a new stand-alone science in the period between 1890 and 1900 AD. This emergence expressed what the scientific method and thinking required in the full sense of the word. It was an emergence that was eagerly awaited.The section of this book on the group''s share in mental life discusses: perception, memory, and emotional life.