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S(t)imulating a Social Psychology : G. H. Mead and the Reality of the Social Object
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- Westlund, Olle, 1969- (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Sociologiska institutionen
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Håkanson, Kaj (thesis advisor)
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- Berg, Lars-Erik, Docent (opponent)
- Sociologiska Institutionen, Göteborg
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- ISBN 9155457738
- Uppsala : Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2003
- English 211 s.
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Series: Studia Sociologica Upsaliensia, 0585-5551 ; 50
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- Social psychology is often said to be a scientific discipline aiming at the observation and explanation of actions between human beings or, more generally, between the human individual and the environment. This general proposition holds for most social psychologists, irrespective of allegiance. Accepting this, it is implied that we are observing the social aspect of a human individual. This text will ask for the conditions under which this social psychology is possible. Indeed, what has to be the case for the observation and explanation of the sociality of the individual to occur?On the basis of G. H. Mead, generally considered the hub around which modern social psychology developed, it will be argued that for a social psychological science to be possible, conditions are implied that make it impossible. Less rhetorically put, accepting or returning to Meads social argument and trying to co-ordinate it with basic premises of scientific conduct, one will find oneself caught between two Meadian facts. On the one hand each individual must be considered social, i.e., appearing to experience as two objects at once. On the other hand, however, explaining an object is to state the object in an unambiguous fashion, i.e., as an independent, hence individual, object. It will be argued here that Mead’s epistemology does not support a scientific and social psychology. Rather a scientific social psychology based on Mead constitutes a contradiction in terms, stemming from a series of misinterpretations. It is the objective of this text to demonstrate these misinterpretations with respect to attempts at a scientific social psychology based on the social vision of this scholar.
Subject headings
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Psykologi (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Psychology (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- Social psychology
- social psychology
- social
- sociality
- relativity
- object
- time
- space
- George Herbert Mead
- Socialpsykologi
- Psychology
- Psykologi
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- dok (subject category)
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