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Turning psychology into a social science / Bernard Guerin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Guerin, Bernard, 1957- author.
- Series:
- Exploring the environmental and social foundations of human behaviour
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social psychology.
- Interpersonal relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 170 pages).
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Information
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of contents
- 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
- Some background
- Why was the 'social' excluded?
- Labelling the 'non-rational'
- Science
- Mental health
- Economics
- Law and legal systems
- Government and bureaucracy
- Ecology
- Religion and spirituality
- Logic
- References
- 2 How are our behaviours shaped by societal 'systems' and 'structures'?
- How do we get from sociological to 'individual'?
- Is there even an individual?
- Where do societal systems and structures come from?
- How do societal systems and structures impact on 'individual' behaviour?
- Examples of deconstructing some 'psychological' structures and systems
- Grammar
- 'Personality'
- Social structures
- Patriarchy
- How do we intervene?
- 3 The societal ecologies of modern life are our 'psychology'
- How can we link people's actions, talking, and thinking to the large societal contexts?
- A little bit of quick historical context
- Some social properties of early forms of resource distribution and social relationships (economics)
- What happened next in human history? The rise of modernity
- What are our current life contexts that shape our actions, talking, and thinking?
- What are these systems that shape our behaviours now?
- From society to individual behaviour
- The first basic consequences
- The specific systems built in order to manage large populations of strangers: welcome to your jungle
- How are we affected by these systems?
- Social relationships
- Economics and resource distribution
- Bureaucratic neoliberalism
- The bigger picture
- 4 Contextualizing beliefs as everyday language strategies
- Rethinking beliefs
- Contextualizing beliefs and their social properties or uses
- Exercise
- Contextualizing how beliefs are changed
- Why it is important to radically rethink beliefs: social and political changes and effects
- Examples of language use (stating beliefs) and how this engenders resources
- 5 Self, identity, consciousness, and meaning as social actions in context
- Contextualizing the 'self'
- Special features of self in kin-based communities
- Special features of self in modernity
- Self-awareness and consciousness
- What does thinking about 'self' do, and especially thinking about yourself?
- Summary: "why does it feel like 'my thoughts control my behaviour'?"
- Reasons and meaning
- Reasons
- Meaning
- 6 A new look at Marxism, psychology, and social contextual analysis
- Social relations of production = resource-social relationship pathways
- Dialectical = contextual?
- Conceptualizing contradictions and opposing forces in material action and real life
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 10, 2020).
- ISBN:
- 9781000094763
- 1000094766
- 9781003021278
- 1003021271
- 9781000094701
- 1000094707
- 9781000094732
- 1000094731
- Publisher Number:
- 40030144056
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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