Critical Introduction to Social Psychology

INTRODUCTION:
WHAT IS SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY?

CHAPTER 1:
HISTORICITY OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

. The needs of society and the double nature of social sciences/psychologies

. Societal upheavals as preconditions for the emergence of social sciences and
social psychology
1. Institutional foundation and consolidation of social sciences in the universities
2. Mass/social movements and the psychology of the mob
3. Industry, military forces and (social) psychology
4. From the metaphysics of the social to the metaphysics of the solitary individual
5. The dialectics of Americanization and the disappearance of the social
6. Crisis and restructuring of the Western world crisis and restructuring of the
social sciences
I. What, after the crisis? Business as usual and the dialectics of critique
1. Critique as non-explicit modernisation
2. Critique as thorn the thorn of critique

CHAPTER 2:
THE SUBJECT-MATTER OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

I. The problem of definition and the solution via multiple and fragmentary
definitions
1. Social psychology as the study of behavior
2. Social psychology as the study of relations
3. The social nature of man and his/her socialization
4. The transcendence of the individual as a border-marker of the subject-matter
of social psychology
II. Further attempts to solve the problem
1. Avoiding formulating a definition
2. Formalizing the definition
3. Enriching and relativizing knowledge originating from other branches of
psychology
4. Summative broadening of the definition
CHAPTER 3:
THE INDIVIDUALSOCIETY RELATION

I. Historicity of the society

II. Changes in the organization of our societies turning to culture
III. Historicity of the individual the self-contained/isolated I
IV. Varieties of the individual-society relation in Social Psychology

CHAPTER 4:
THE CONTEXTUALIZATION OF THE PSYCHICAL

I. Psychology as science and the de-socialization of the psychical

II. The variable content of conscience
1. The language of psychology
2. The classness of the psychical
3. The historicity of the psychical
4. The topicality of the psychical

CHAPTER 5:
THE NAGUALS AND THE POWER OF THE MULTITUDE: CONTEXTUALIZATION AS
INTELLECTUAL AND POLITICAL TOOL

II.I. The structure of the Indian self

III.II. The language dimension
IV.III. Maya epistemology
V.IV. Breaking with the past

AFTERWORD:
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