Social Science, Ideology, Culture, & History
In 1973, almost a half century ago, distinguished psychologist Kenneth Gergen published an extremely significant and highly controversial article in the prestigious Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. The paper was called “Social Psychology as History,” and in it, Gergen suggested that the aim of modeling psychological science after the natural sciences was deeply mistaken. It was mistaken because the goal of developing timeless generalizations about your subject was the wrong goal when your subject was human nature. Human beings lived in history and in culture. As history moved and culture changed, human nature changed with it. ….[READ]
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