1st Edition
A Guided Science History of Psychology in the Mirror of Its Making
By Jaan Valsiner
Copyright 2012
352 Pages
by
Routledge
352 Pages
by
Routledge
352 Pages
by
Routledge
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That sciences are guided by explicit and implicit ties to their surrounding social world is not new. Jaan Valsiner fills in the wide background of scholarship on the history of science, the recent focus on social studies of sciences, and the cultural and cognitive analyses of knowledge making. The theoretical scheme that he uses to explain the phenomena of social guidance of science comes from his... Read more
Preface Introduction: What Kind of Knowledge—And for Whom? Part I. Societies and Sciences: Presentations and Histories 1. The Eternal Freedom Movement of Ideas 2. Axiomatic Bases for Experiential (Empirical) Knowledge Construction 3. Objectivity and Social Forgetfulness 4. Pathways to Evidence: Negotiation of Knowledge between Its Producers and Consumers Part II. The Mirror in the Making: Psychology as a Liminal Science 5. From Enlightenment to Struggle: Psychology and Philosophy in the Search of Wissenschaft 6. The Birth of a Troubled Wissenschaft: Emerging Psychology in Its German Context 7. Between Poetry and Science: Locating Geisteswissenschaft on the Map of Knowledge 8. Psychology in a Perpetual Crisis Part III. Facing the Future—Transcending the Past 9. Learning from the Fate of Psychology 10. Pathways to Methodologies: Semiotics of Knowledge Construction 11. Globalization and Its Role in Science General Conclusion: Science under the Influence: Guided Exploration of the Horizons of Knowledge Bibliography Index (Compiled by Maaris Raudsepp)
Biography
Jaan Valsiner
