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Intro -- Preface -- References -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Theorising Masculinities -- The Psychology of Men and Masculinity -- Critical Studies of Men and Masculinity -- Hegemonic Masculinity -- Changing Masculinities? -- 'Digital Masculinities' -- References -- Chapter 2: Embodied Masculinities: Men's Body Projects -- Men, Masculinities, and Body Image -- Muscularity and Weight Management Projects -- Metrosexual Masculinity: Cosmetic Use -- Manscaping -- Implications -- References -- Chapter 3: Affective Masculinities: Emotions and Mental Health -- Doing Emotion with Masculinity in Mind -- Online Emotion Work by Men -- Men and Weight Management -- Men and Infertility -- Men and Depression -- Implications -- References -- Chapter 4: Supportive Masculinities: Caring for Others -- Contemporary Fatherhood -- Peer Support -- Peer Support Online -- Supporting Others: Men as Advocates and Allies -- Implications -- References -- Afterword -- References -- Index.

This volume features a range of leading authors working on key social psychological issues, and highlights a commitment to a social psychology which shuns psychologisation, reductionism and neutrality. It provides invaluable insight into many of the most pressing and distressing issues we face in modern society, including the migrant and refugee crises affecting Europe; the devaluing of black lives in the USA; and the poverty, ill-health, and poor mental well-being that has resulted from ever-increasing austerity efforts in the UK.0Including sections on critical perspectives, critical methodologies, and critical applications, this volume also focuses on issues within social cognition, self and identity

This handbook is the first to bring together the latest theory and research on critical approaches to social psychological challenges. Edited by a leading authority in the field, this volume further establishes critical social psychology as a discipline of study, distinct from mainstream social psychology. The handbook explains how critical approaches to social processes and phenomena are essential to fully understanding them, and covers the main research topics in basic and applied social psychology, including social cognition, identity and social relations, alongside overviews of the main theories and methodologies that underpin critical approaches. This volume features a range of leading authors working on key social psychological issues, and highlights a commitment to a social psychology which shuns psychologisation, reductionism and neutrality. It provides invaluable insight into many of the most pressing and distressing issues we face in modern society, including the migrant and refugee crises affecting Europe; the devaluing of black lives in the USA; and the poverty, ill-health, and poor mental well-being that has resulted from ever-increasing austerity efforts in the UK. Including sections on critical perspectives, critical methodologies, and critical applications, this volume also focuses on issues within social cognition, self and identity. This one-stop handbook is an indispensable resource for a range of academics, students and researchers in the fields of psychology and sociology, and particularly those with an interest in social identity, power relations, and critical interventions.

I want to make a case, following some recent social psychological thinking (Georgaca; Frosh et al.; Hollway and Jefferson), for using psychoanalytic concepts to inform qualitative interviewing and (particularly) the analysis of interview data. More specifically, I wish to advocate the use of both discursive and psychoanalytic perspectives in facilitating qualitative data analysis: the deployment of psychoanalytic concepts directs us to interviewee biographies and subjectivity, complementing the discursive emphasis on the language use and function during interviews. To illustrate the benefits of this 'psychodiscursive' approach, I draw upon interview data on a father-son relationship, derived from a wider ESRC-sponsored Node project on family resemblances, to trace defensive as well as discursive patterns in the interview data. I will be arguing that both discursive and psychoanalytic frameworks can offer valuable, and not necessarily incompatible, levels of interpretation, while either perspective presented in isolation will lead to an impoverished analysis.

Discourses around masculinities have recently attracted critical attention from feminist social psychology. The present paper contributes to this field by problematizing talk around gender equality in the context of all-male group discussions. Two broad patterns of accounting which promulgated male superiority were identified - appeals to gender difference/dominance and egalitarian ideals. The invocation of gender difference was grounded variously in `socialization', `biology' and the `psychology of women' repertoires. It is argued that such accounts of stable gender differences are ideological, in that they mask oppression by rendering existing power relations natural and inevitable. As well, and somewhat paradoxically, the articulation of liberal values assisted in the formulation of sexist sentiment. This particular discursive strategy has been well documented with respect to `new racism' and only recently studied in the context of sexism. The discursive reproduction of inequalities is clearly an important feminist issue and the ideological import of such talk is discussed.

Frontmatter -- Introducing Reflexivity. Introducing Reflexivity -- The Reflexive Journey: Mapping Multiple Routes / Linda Finlay -- Deconstructing Reflexivity / Brendan Gough -- Personal Reflexivity. Personal Reflexivity -- Necessary Subjectivity: Exploiting Researchers' Motives, Passions and Prejudices in Pursuit of Answering ₁true₂ Questions / Ilja Maso -- Three Journeys Towards Reflexivity / Elizabeth McKay, Susan Ryan, Thelma Sumsion -- Navigating Multiple Research Identities Reflexivity in Discourse Analytic Research / Claire Ballinger -- Developing a Critically Reflexive Position Using Discourse Analysis / David Harper -- Reflexivity as Presence: A Journey of Self-Inquiry / Gweneth Doane -- Reflexivity Within Relationships. Reflexivity Within Relationships -- Through the Looking Glass: Intersubjectivity and Hermeneutic Reflection / Linda Finlay -- Analysing the Interviewer: The Joint Construction of Accounts of Psychotic Experience / Eugenie Georgaca -- Reflexivity, ₁Bias₂ and the in-Depth Interview: Developing Shared Meanings / Paula Nicolson -- Shifting Researcher Positions During a Group Interview Study: A Reflexive Analysis and Re-View / Brendan Gough -- Reflexivity Through Collaboration. Reflexivity Through Collaboration -- Doing Reflexivity: A Collaborative Narrative Approach / Maria J Away -- Shifting Identities: The Negotiation of Meanings Between Texts and Between Persons / Jonathan A Smith -- Researcher as Storyteller and Performer: Parallels with Playback Theatre / Nick Rowe -- Using Reflexivity to Loosen Theoretical and Organisational Knots within Participatory Action Research / Majella McVadden, Alison McCamley -- Holding up the Mirror to Widen the View: Multiple Subjectivities in the Reflexive Team / Christine A Barry -- The Next Turn: Reflexively Analysing Reflexive Research / Katie MacMillan -- Index.

Relational aspects of infertility are understandably often viewed through a dyadic lens, which has typically prioritised women's experiences of infertility, thereby simultaneously burdening women and marginalising men's accounts from understandings of reproduction. Men's infertility experiences in relation to the role and impact on other relationships have yet to be examined in detail. This article considers data from a sample of 41 men who completed a qualitative questionnaire about their experiences of infertility. Our thematic analysis of relationship-relevant responses generated two key themes: disruption of temporal horizons; and friends and family members as 'outsiders'. Our analysis develops insights into the emotional labour involved in managing relationships with friends and family members in the challenging context of infertility and highlights the problems associated with 'support' offered by significant others. The value of understanding infertility as a relational phenomenon that is shaped and constrained by close relationships and wider social norms is elaborated, with the implications for healthcare practice also discussed.

Esmée Sinéad Hanna and Brendan Gough examine men's experiences of fertility and lifestyle practices, exploring personal experiences of the role of lifestyle in the quest for conception as well as the broader promotion of 'lifestyle' within both clinical and online material as a key aspect for 'improving' male fertility.

Critical Social Psychology introduces students, in a straightforward, practical and accessible way, to key themes and debates arising from this fast-growing - and often complex - field. The authors contrast mainstream experimental and critical understandings of social psychological topics, and place the criticism and theory in a societal context.