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This book shows how everything we do is social and how research from social anthropology, sociolinguistics, and sociology can be integrated into a new form of psychology. It is part of a trilogy that offers a new way of doing psychology focusing on people's social environments as determining their behaviour, rather than internal attributions.
List of contents
List of 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 2. How are our behaviours shaped by societal ‘systems’ and ‘structures’? 3. The societal ecologies of modern life are our ‘psychology’ 4. Contextualizing beliefs as everyday language strategies 5. Self, identity, consciousness, and meaning as social actions in context 6. A new look at Marxism, psychology, and social contextual analysis 7. Contextualizing the arts 8. Contextualizing religion and religious behaviours 9. Weaning yourself off social psychology Index
About the author
Bernard Guerin has worked in both Australia and New Zealand researching and teaching to merge psychology with the social sciences. His main research now focuses on contextualizing ‘mental health’ behaviours, working with Indigenous communities, and exploring social contextual analyses especially for language use and thinking.
Summary
This book shows how everything we do is social and how research from social anthropology, sociolinguistics, and sociology can be integrated into a new form of psychology. It is part of a trilogy that offers a new way of doing psychology focusing on people’s social environments as determining their behaviour, rather than internal attributions.
