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Historical Genesis of Social Psychology as a Source of Shaping Ideas about its Semantic Scope, Discipline Structure and Scientific Status // Наукові студії із соціальної та політичної психології. Спецвипуск. - К. : Міленіум, 2015.
The article is an attempt of a critical analysis of the current state of social psychology as a branch of science from the point of its past, in other words – based on the reconstruction of its historiogenesis. Having done this reconstruction, the author confutes a myth aboutemergence of social psychology within two sciences – sociology and psychology, which results in social psychology being viewed as a “hybrid” subdiscipline with a vague scientific status. The idea is presented consistently that social psychology is a psychological science and could not have been any other, for it is aimed at studying a special class of psychological (not some other) phenomena. Thus, all the precedents of incorporating social psychology into other sciences must be viewed as the special forms of interaction (connections) of psychology with these sciences. The author clarifies the place of social psychology in a psychological knowledge system showing that social psychology broadens themeta-subject field of psychology in general up to its actual ontological scope, and therefore, it is one of the most important fundamental psychological disciplines.
The History of Social Psychology
As a scientific discipline, social psychology is only a bit older than one hundred years, with most of the growth occurring during the past five decades (McGarty & Haslam, 1997). By most standards, social psychology is a relatively young science.
Sociocultural studies of mind / edited by James V. Wcrtsch, Pablo del Rio, Amelia Alvarez. p. cm. -(Learning in doing) ISBN 0-521-47056-0 (hbk.). -ISBN 0-521-47643-7 (pbk.) l. Ethnopsychology. 2. Social psychology. I. \\'crtsch, James V. II. Rio, Pablo del. III. Alvarez, Amelia. IV. Series. GN502.S65 1995 155.8 -dc20 94-34685 CIP Series foreword List of contributors page vii IX A catalog record for this hook is available from the British Library. Hardback ISBN 0-521-47643-7 Paperback Part I Human action: historical and theoretical foundations Cultural-historical psychology and the psychological theory of activity: retrospect and prospect Vladimir P. Zinchenko 2 The need for action in sociocultural research James V. Wertsch 3 Theories of action, speech, natural language, and discourse Jean-Paul Bronckart 37 56 75 Part II Mediation in action 4 Writing and the mind 95 David R. 01.1011 5 An approach to an integrated sensorimotor system in the human central brain and a subconscious computer 124 Tadanobu Tsunoda v \'1 Contents Part III Sociocultural setting, intersubjectivity, and the formation of the individual 6 Observing sociocultural activity on three planes: participatory appropriation, guided participation, and apprenticeship Barbara Rogoff The constitution of the subjeit: a persistent question Alia Luiza B. Smolka, A1aria Cecilia R. De Goes, and Angel Pillo 7 Part IV Sociocultural settings: design and intervention 8 Socio-cultural-historical psychology: some general remarks and a proposal for a new kind of culturalgenetic methodology Michael Cole 9 Tossing, praying, and thinking: the changing architectures of mind and agency Pablo del Rio and Amelia Alcarez Jlldex Series Foreword 139 165 187 This series for Cambridge University Press is becoming widely known as an international forum for studies of situated learning and cognition.
2009
In his classic Handbook of Social Psychology chapter, Jones (1985) offered a particularly comprehensive account of five decades of social psychology, beginning with the late 1930s. His treatment of the contributions of Kurt Lewin, whom he rightly identified as the most important shaper of modern experimental social psychology—and the groundbreaking work of Leon Festinger, whose discrepancy reduction model (borrowed from Lewin’s tension-system concept) was applied to both pressures toward uniformity within groups and consonant versus dissonant cognitions of actors—remains essential reading for aspiring researchers who want to understand what social psychologists study, how they study it, and the “middlerange” level of theorizing they find most comfortable. Jones also offered balanced assessments of the most provocative debates that had taken place within the field and a clear-eyed account of the waxing and waning of specific research programs (which he characterized as “bandwagons” a...
From Sociohistory to Psychohistory
Purpose - A theory of psycohistory is postulated as a “think-piece”. It develops from some earlier theoretical work on sociohistory that can model cultures that are large scale (e.g., societies) over the long term or small scale (e.g., corporations) over the short term. Sociohistory, as developed by Yolles and Frieden, provides a new theory to explore the possibilities of tracking and explaining social and cultural change. It offers entry to the development of a theory of psychohistory that explores the psychological basis for decision making and social action and interaction, and connects with both Jung’s propositions on psychological profiling and to the popular Myers-Briggs instruments of personality testing. Design/methodology/approach - Sociohistory was developed by coupling three theoretical frameworks: the knowledge cybernetics of Maurice Yolles, the mathematical approach in Extreme Physical Information (EPI) of Roy Frieden, and the sociocultural dynamics of Pitrin Sorokin. Knowledge cybernetics creates the vehicle for the exploration of the sociocultural dynamics that reflects the theoretical structures of Sorokin, and uses EPI as a way of fine tuning our understanding of the qualitative and quantitative dynamics uncovered. The basic fractal nature of knowledge cybernetics is be used to extend the theory of sociohistory from cultural dynamics to social dynamics. Elaborating on the fractal nature of the approach, an indicative theory of psychohistory is formulated. Findings – The theoretical basis for sociohistory is outlined and extended from cultural to social dynamics, and it is shown how the methodological approach can then be extended to the development of psychohistory. An agenda for further sociohistorical and psychohistorical research is also developed in this process. Originality/value – Sociohistory is extended to the promise of being able to deal with social dynamics within a cultural setting. The postulated theory of psychohistory both explores social dynamics in psychological terms and is linked to the potential for developing a new personality inventory.
Historical spaces of social psychology
History of the Human Sciences, 2006
An extensive analysis of all social psychology textbooks published, in french, between 1947 and 2001, including a history chapter, provides a rich corpus for the study of the history of social psychology. In this article we choose to study the historical spaces of social psychology, in order to show how the discipline was located in geographical, urban, institutional and collective spaces. We argue that, into this specific corpus, spaces are essentially related to some solitary and consensual scholars names without any informative reference to their institutions, nor to any trace of collective work. Moreover, we try to highlight several styles, ways and norms of collective writing the history of this discipline.
Historical Relationships with Social Physicology
Historical, in addition to having auxiliary science in his knowledge, history also establish relationships with other sciences, especially fellow social sciences. In this connection what happens is a relationship of mutual need, herein lies the difference with the concept of science Auxiliary history, where a more dominant history in need of help to uncover a problem, more precisely we can call it with a combination of two social sciences. The development of post-World War II History shows a strong tendency to use the social sciences approach in historical studies. One of the basic ideas is that: the descriptive-narrative history is no longer satisfactory to explain complex problems or symptoms in the event of History. Psychology is very related to mental and psychological human. Humans who become the object of historical study is not just explained about the actions taken and what is caused by the action? why someone does that action? These questions pertain to the psychological condition in question. Conditions that can be caused by stimuli from the outside or the environment, can also from within himself. The use of social phsychology in history, gave birth to the focus of the study of the history of mentality
Psychology and History: Interdisciplinary Explorations
2014
As disciplines, psychology and history share a primary concern with the human condition. Yet historically, the relationship between the two fields has been uneasy, marked by a long-standing climate of mutual suspicion. This book engages with the history of this relationship and possibilities for its future intellectual and empirical development. Bringing together internationally renowned psychologists and historians, it explores the ways in which the two disciplines could benefit from a closer dialogue. Thirteen chapters span a broad range of topics, including social memory, prejudice, stereotyping, affect and emotion, cognition, personality, gender and the self. Contributors draw on examples from different cultural contexts - from eighteenth-century Britain, to apartheid South Africa, to conflict-torn Yugoslavia - to offer fresh impetus to interdisciplinary scholarship. Generating new ideas, research questions and problems, this book encourages researchers to engage in genuine dialogue and place their own explorations in new intellectual contexts.
Culture, history, and psychology: Some historical reflections and research directions
Culture and Psychology, 2018
Psychologists have typically narrated their discipline's history so as to glorify an experimental method, which analyzes the mind independently of cultural and historical factors. In line with Jahoda's sociocultural sensitivity to psychology, this article critically interrogates the plausibility for this vision of psychology as cut off from wider social processes, and offers an alternative based on a re-appropriation of concepts and methods from psychology's past that highlight cultural processes. This approach is illustrated with a study of how people remember history narratives on the basis of cultural resources taken over from social groups they belong to, and which thus embed them within a stream of history. Both psychologists' narratives of their discipline and people's everyday memory of history are shown to be motivated toward the justification of particular visions of social reality.