Subjectivity In Psychology In The Era Of Social Justice

Author : Bethany Morris,Chase Kelly O'Gwin,Sebastienne Grant,Sakenya McDonald
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000051049

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Subjectivity in Psychology in the Era of Social Justice by Bethany Morris,Chase Kelly O'Gwin,Sebastienne Grant,Sakenya McDonald Pdf

The notion of social justice permeates much of current Western political and cultural discourse with a newfound urgency. What it means to be socially just is a question Morris et al investigate and interrogate, looking at psychology’s contributions to the subject and considering the practicality of social justice in light of modern subjectivity. The book begins by examining the lack of equity and inclusivity in education and the ways in which psychology has been complicit in the margninalization of oppressed groups. Drawing upon Lacanian theory, it goes on to discuss how diversity initiatives take on an obsessive-neurotic characteristic that can stifle those it claims to understand and promote .The authors investigate the anxiety around the performance of being socially just or "woke" and suggest how psychology can contribute to the development of socially just humans, more attuned to the needs of others, through the appreciation of interconnectivity and compassion. An imperative text for scholars and students of philosophical and theoretical psychology, critical psychology, social psychology, psychoanalysis, social work, and education.

Author : Jack Martin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000200959

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From Scientific Psychology to the Study of Persons by Jack Martin Pdf

This is a critical, personalized approach to reframing the discipline of psychology through a singular narrative in the form of a memoir written by a successful research psychologist. In this book we follow Martin’s unique career, which has allowed him to understand and adopt different perspectives and ways of approaching psychology, from working in applied areas like educational and counseling psychology to more specialized areas like theory and history of psychology. His journey through and within the field describes his movement away from scientifically based psychology, which views teachings and interventions to be primarily underwritten by hard scientific evidence. Martin exposes the flaws in this approach and highlights the importance of focusing on the study of persons in their life contexts over the use of aggregated group results to ensure that the discipline survives and flourishes. This is an impactful and universally applicable book with valuable insights for students and scholars of psychology today, particularly those studying history of psychology, theoretical psychology, and philosophical psychology.

Author : Jeff Sugarman,Jack Martin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000042542

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A Humanities Approach to the Psychology of Personhood by Jeff Sugarman,Jack Martin Pdf

In this set of insightful essays, the concept of the psychological humanities is defined and explored. A clear rationale is provided for its necessity in the study and understanding of the individual and identity in a discipline that is occupied largely by empirical studies that report aggregated data and its analysis. Contributors to this volume are leading scholars in theoretical psychology who believe that psychology must be about persons and their lives. In these essays, they draw from a variety of disciplines that include art, literature, life writing, and history to make a case for the psychological humanities. A final chapter provides a critical commentary on the value of the psychological humanities. The chapter argues that psychology must draw on the knowledge and practices of the humanities, as well as the sciences and social sciences, in order to attain a greater understanding of personhood. This book is aimed at upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students and scholars of psychology, particularly theoretical psychology, philosophy of the mind, and those from a humanities background interested in exploring the concept of the psychological humanities.

Author : Tom R. Tyler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Equality
ISBN : 0429306318

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Social Justice In A Diverse Society by Tom R. Tyler Pdf

Author : Carl Ratner
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783031145797

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Cultural Psychology, Racism, and Social Justice by Carl Ratner Pdf

This book utilizes cultural psychology as a cultural theory and psychological theory capable of explaining and improving social issues. In particular Vygotsky’s cultural-historical psychology, and Ratner’s macro-cultural psychology are invoked to explain racism and mitigate it. This explanation of, and solution to, racism are utilized as a framework for analyzing and refining contemporary movements for racial justice. Among the topics discussed: Macro cultural psychology and Vygotsky’s Marxist cultural-historical psychology Differentiating psychological racism from economic racism Historical examples of racism during American slavery which reveal their cultural and psychological features Cultural-psychological analysis and refinement of Black Lives Matter, racial capitalism, intersectionism, and Ta-Nehishi Coates’ work Cultural Psychology, Racism, and Social Justice will be of interest to the fields of social policy, social transformation, psychological theory, cultural theory, and history.

Author : Phillip L. Hammack
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780199938735

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The Oxford Handbook of Social Psychology and Social Justice by Phillip L. Hammack Pdf

"The twentieth century witnessed not only the devastation of war, conflict, and injustice on a massive scale, but also the emergence of social psychology as a discipline committed to addressing these and other social problems. In the twenty-first century, the promise of social psychology remains incomplete. We witness the reprise of authoritarianism and the endurance of institutionalized forms of oppression such as sexism, racism, and heterosexism across the globe. This volume represents an audacious proposal to reorient social psychology toward the study of social injustice in real-world settings. Contributors cross borders between cultures and disciplines to highlight new and emerging critical paradigms that interrogate the consequences of social injustice. United in their belief in the possibility of liberation from oppression, the authors of this book offer a blueprint for a new kind of social psychology." --

Author : Dennis R. Fox,Dennis Fox,Isaac Prilleltensky
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1997-05-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 076195211X

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Critical Psychology by Dennis R. Fox,Dennis Fox,Isaac Prilleltensky Pdf

This broad-ranging introduction to the diverse strands of critical psychology explores the history, practice and values of psychology, scrutinises a wide range of sub-disciplines, and sets out the major theoretical frameworks.

Author : Charles Tolman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134878116

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Psychology, Society and Subjectivity by Charles Tolman Pdf

Increasingly there have been more and more challenges to received notions of psychological thought and practice. No longer satisfied with old-fashioned positivist approaches, psychologists are following other social sciences in their critiques and methods. Psychology, society and Subjectivity traces the history and development of German critical psychology. Its author, Charles Tolman, charts the initial dissent from mainstream psychology in the late 1960s, to the reconstruction of a psychology that is truly for people, not simply one about people. Drawing on the work of leading figures such as Klaus Holzkamp, Psychology, Society and Subjectivity will need to be read by anyone keen to make psychology relevant without sacrificing its rigour.

Author : Charlotte Højholt,Ernst Schraube
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783030299774

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Subjectivity and Knowledge by Charlotte Højholt,Ernst Schraube Pdf

Based on a collection of chapters of leading scholars in the field, the purpose of this book is to intervene in current debates on the scientific foundation of psychological theory, methodology and research practice, and to offer an in-depth, situated and contextual understanding of psychological generalization. This book aims to contribute to a theoretical and methodological vocabulary which includes the subjective dimension of human life in psychological inquiry, and roots processes of generalization in persons’ common, social, cultural and material practices of everyday living. The volume is directed to students, professors, and researchers in psychology as well as to scholars in other branches of the humanities and social science where psychology and especially subjectivity, everyday practice and the development of psychological knowledge is an issue. The volume will be of particular interest to scholars in the field of cultural psychology, critical psychology, psychology of everyday life as well as psychological methodology and qualitative studies of everyday life including the various critical undergraduate, graduate, master, and PhD programs. The book will also be of special interest for scholars working in social psychology, history of psychology, general psychology, theoretical psychology, environmental psychology and political psychology.

Author : Wendy Hollway,Julian Henriques,Couze Venn,Cathy Urwin,Valerie Walkerdine
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134746453

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Changing the Subject by Wendy Hollway,Julian Henriques,Couze Venn,Cathy Urwin,Valerie Walkerdine Pdf

Changing the Subject is a classic critique of traditional psychology that lays down the foundations of critical and feminist psychology.

Author : Romin W. Tafarodi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107007550

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Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century by Romin W. Tafarodi Pdf

What is it like to be a person today? To think, feel, and act as an individual in a time of accelerated social, cultural, technological, and political change? This question is inspired by the double meaning of subjectivity as both the "first-personness" of consciousness (being a subject of experience) and the conditioning of that consciousness within society (being subject to power, authority, or influence). The contributors to this volume explore the perils and promise of the self in today's world. Their shared aim is to describe where we stand and what is at stake as we move ahead in the twenty-first century. They do so by interrogating the historical moment as a predicament of the subject. Their shared focus is on subjectivity as a dialectic of self and other, or individual and society, and how the defining tensions of subjectivity are reflected in contemporary forms of individualism, identity, autonomy, social connection, and political consciousness.

Author : Danny Osborne,Chris G. Sibley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 707 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108489638

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The Cambridge Handbook of Political Psychology by Danny Osborne,Chris G. Sibley Pdf

This handbook reviews political psychology from an international perspective, covering foundational approaches and contemporary challenges.

Author : Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli,Bob Pease
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135040963

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The Politics of Recognition and Social Justice by Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli,Bob Pease Pdf

Via a wide range of case studies, this book examines new forms of resistance to social injustices in contemporary Western societies. Resistance requires agency, and agency is grounded in notions of the subject and subjectivity. How do people make sense of their subjectivity as they are constructed and reconstructed within relations of power? What kinds of subjectivities are needed to struggle against forms of dominance and claim recognition? The participants in the case studies are challenging forms of dominance and subordination grounded in class, race, culture, nationality, sexuality, religion, age, disability and other forms of social division. It is a premise of this book that new and/or reconstructed forms of subjectivity are required to challenge social relations of subordination and domination. Thus, the transformation of subjectivity as well as the restructuring of oppressive power relations is necessary to achieve social justice. By examining the construction of subjectivity of particular groups through an intersectional lens, the book aims to contribute to theoretical accounts of how subjects are constituted and how they can develop a critical distance from their positioning.

Author : Shose Kessi,Floretta Boonzaier,Babette Stephanie Gekeler
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783030893514

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Pan-Africanism and Psychology in Decolonial Times by Shose Kessi,Floretta Boonzaier,Babette Stephanie Gekeler Pdf

This book explores the potential of Pan-African thought in contributing to advancing psychological research, theory and practice. Euro/American mainstream psychology has historically served the interests of a dominant western paradigm. Contemporary trends in psychological work have emerged as a direct result of the impact of violent histories of slavery, genocide and colonisation. Hence, this book proposes that psychology, particularly in its social forms, as a discipline centered on the relationship between mind and society, is well-placed to produce the critical knowledge and tools for imagining and promoting a just and equitable world.

Author : Marie-Pierre Moreau,Catherine Lee,Cynthia Okpokiri
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781350287112

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Reinventing the Family in Uncertain Times by Marie-Pierre Moreau,Catherine Lee,Cynthia Okpokiri Pdf

This edited volume looks at the reproduction and transformation of family norms in contemporary times. Set against a context of far-right politics calling for a return to more conservative identity politics and family norms, and building on late 20th century social movements which challenged essentialist and functionalist understandings of identities and families, it considers a variety of non-traditional family structures. Written by scholars based in Argentina, Ghana, Italy, Portugal, the UK, and the USA, the chapters question what 'counts' as a family in contemporary times and considers how the discourses of power which operate in institutional and geographical contexts impact how families are recognized and valued. The book includes analysis of non-traditional and non-heteronormative families such as single-parent families, childless families, families with animal companions, LGBTQ families, families across the Global South, mixed heritage families and families of friends. Drawing on post-structuralist, critical, and feminist theories the contributors discuss how power relationships linked to gender, class, ethnicity, sexuality, dis/ability and other in/equalities intersect and operate in defining what counts as a family.