Год выпуска: 2012 Автор: Talia Esnard Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 280 ISBN: 9783848438969
Описание
Social cognitive theory presents a dynamic theory, which engages in a scientific study of ‘how people’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviours are influenced by the actual, imagined, and implied presence of others’ (Allport 1985, 3). The hallmark of such an approach is its claim that social interaction informs cognitive processes (as the axis around which social behaviour is learnt), within a reciprocal process, which can be studied scientifically. Thus, central to social cognitive theory is Bandura’s (1986, 18) concept of reciprocal determinism, that is, the ‘understanding of human function in terms of a complex dynamic triadic reciprocal function in which behaviour, personal factors and environmental events all operate as interacting determinant of each other’. Relatedly, based on the above approach, the social cognitive theory examines the impact of the collective or the structural on the individual or the agent, particularly on the formation of particular attitudes. As such, the...
