Psychology without Foundations
History, Philosophy and Psychosocial Theory
Nonfiction, Health & Well Being, Psychology
| Author: | Professor Steven Brown, Professor Paul Stenner | ISBN: | 9781473903630 |
| Publisher: | SAGE Publications | Publication: | August 3, 2009 |
| Imprint: | SAGE Publications Ltd | Language: | English |
| Author: | Professor Steven Brown, Professor Paul Stenner |
| ISBN: | 9781473903630 |
| Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
| Publication: | August 3, 2009 |
| Imprint: | SAGE Publications Ltd |
| Language: | English |
Electronic Inspection Copy available for instructors here
For many years, for many people social psychology has been deemed a discipline in crisis.
This new book proposes a way out of the crisis by letting go of the idea that psychology needs new foundations or a new identity, whether biological, discursive or cognitive. The psychological is not narrowly confined to any one aspect of human experience; it is quite literally everywhere.
The book proposes a strong process-oriented approach to the psychological, which studies events or occasions. Aspects of experience such as communication or embodiment are treated as thoroughly mediated - the product of multiple intersecting relationships between the biological, the psychic and the social. The outcome is an image of a mobile, reflexively founded discipline which follows the psychological wherever it takes us, from the depths of embodiment to the complexities of modern global politics.
Electronic Inspection Copy available for instructors here
For many years, for many people social psychology has been deemed a discipline in crisis.
This new book proposes a way out of the crisis by letting go of the idea that psychology needs new foundations or a new identity, whether biological, discursive or cognitive. The psychological is not narrowly confined to any one aspect of human experience; it is quite literally everywhere.
The book proposes a strong process-oriented approach to the psychological, which studies events or occasions. Aspects of experience such as communication or embodiment are treated as thoroughly mediated - the product of multiple intersecting relationships between the biological, the psychic and the social. The outcome is an image of a mobile, reflexively founded discipline which follows the psychological wherever it takes us, from the depths of embodiment to the complexities of modern global politics.
