Historical Social Psychology (Psychology Revivals) [Paperback]

The vast majority of research in social psychology focuses on momentary events: an attitude is changed, dissonance is reduced, a cognition is primed, and so on. Little attention is a paid to the unfolding of events over time, to social life as an ongoing process in which events are related in various ways as life unfolds. Originally published in 1984 Historical Social Psychology opens a space for theory and research in which temporal process is central. Contributors to this broad-ranging work provide a rich range of perspectives, from the theoretical to the methodological, from micro-sequences to the life-span, and from contemporary history to the long dur?e. Together, these authors set the stage for a major shift in the focus of social psychological inquiry.

Preface  Part I: Metatheory, Theory, and Method in Historical Social Psychology  1 Kenneth J. Gergen An introduction to historical social psychology  2 Jill G. Morawski Historiography as a metatheoretical text for social psychology  3 Harry F.M. Peeters Theoretical orientations in a historical psychology  4 Marianthi Georgoudi Modern dialectics in social psychology  5 Leon Rappoport Dialectical analysis and psychosocial epistemology  6 David A. Kenny and Donald T. Campbell Methodological considerations in the analysis of temporal data  7 Dean Keith Simonton Generational time-series analysis: a paradigm for studying sociocultural influences  Part II: Diachronic Inquiry: From the Micro-Sequence to the Life-Span  8 Stuart Albert The sense of closure  9 Mary M. Gergen and Kenneth J. Gergen The social construction of narrative accounts  10 William McKl³x