Turning Psychology into a Social Science

ISBN-13: 9780367898120 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 170 str.

Bernard Guerin

Opis

This book shows how everything we do is social and how research from social anthropology, sociolinguistics, and sociology can be integrated into a new form of psychology. It is part of a trilogy that offers a new way of doing psychology focusing on people’s social environments as determining their behaviour, rather than internal attributions.

Spis treści

List of tables  Preface  Acknowledgements  A note on referencing  1. The opposite of rational is social, not irrational or crazy: How the ‘social’ got squeezed out of Western history  2. How are our behaviours shaped by societal ‘systems’ and ‘structures’?  3. The societal ecologies of modern life are our ‘psychology’  4. Contextualizing beliefs as everyday language strategies  5. Self, identity, consciousness, and meaning as social actions in context  6. A new look at Marxism, psychology, and social contextual analysis  7. Contextualizing the arts  8. Contextualizing religion and religious behaviours  9. Weaning yourself off social psychology  Index