The Three Faces of Social Psychology

摘要: The current "crisis" of social psychology largely reflects the division field into three increasingly isolated domains or faces: (1) psychological psychology, (2) symbolic interactionism, and (3) sociology (or structure personality). A knowledge analysis suggests that distinctive substantive methodological concerns each face reflect intellectual institutional contexts in which it developed. Psychological has focused on individual processes relation to stimuli using laboratory experiments; face-to-face interaction naturalistic observations; sociology, macrosocial structures behavior, most often survey methods. Brief critical discussion faces indicates strengths complement weaknesses others, highlighting a need for more interchange among them. receives special emphasis because currently lacks coherence clear identity other faces, yet is essential well-rounded since balances microsocial emphases faces. Although diagnosis does not guarantee cure, this paper aims promote modification very trends depicts. expansion Handbook Social Psychology from one volume 1935 two volumes 1954 five by 1968-69 rapid growth broad interdisciplinary psy