TY  - BOOK
AU  - Guerin,Bernard
ED  - Taylor & Francis.
TI  - Turning psychology into a social science
T2  - Exploring the environmental and social foundations of human behaviour
SN  - 9780367898120
U1  - 302 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Routledge
PB  - Abingdon, Oxon
KW  - Social psychology
KW  - Interpersonal relations
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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? -- References -- 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 -- References -- 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 -- References -- 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 -- References -- 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; Taylor & Francis eBooks Multi-User
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