The essay needs to be selective in its content. The task is to decide which position to take regarding the claim; agree, disagree, partly disagree? Your position will be summarised in the conclusion but the whole essay should be shaped to present it
Learning outcomes:
.Address key theoretical debates in social psychology.
.Construct a detailed and sustained argument that acknowledges the complexity of social psychological issues.
.Recognise the contested aspects of social psychological knowledge and the potential uncertainty, ambiguity and limits of knowledge produced in social psychological scholarship.
.Use critical evaluation of social psychological knowledge in an essay in order to produce a logical, substantiated and sustained argument.
.Produce written work that is confident and purposeful, demonstrating imagination and your own ‘voice’.