174 Pages
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Routledge
174 Pages
by
Routledge
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One result of the European student movements of the late 1960s was a critique of the mainstream, bourgeois social sciences. They were seen as irrelevant to the real needs of ordinary people and as practically and ideologically supporting oppression. The discussions around psychology in Berlin at the time became increasingly focused on whether the discipline could in fact be reformed. Among the... Read more
Part I Dissent: 1. Ideology, Power and Subjectivity. Part II Critique: 2. Philosophical assumptions 3. Social-historical Theory 4. Specific Psychological Theories. Part III Reconstruction 5. Reconstructing the Psychological Categories 6. From Phylogenesis to the Dominance of Sociogenesis 7. Individual Subjectivity and its Development. Part IV Toward Practice: 8. Methodological Implications.
Biography
Charles Tolman is Professor of Psychology at the University of Victoria, Canada.
