After the crisis in social psychology: The development of the transactional model of science
- Authors
- Kim, U.
- Issue Date
- Apr-1999
- Publisher
- Blackwell Publishing Ltd
- Citation
- Asian Journal of Social Psychology, v.2, no.1, pp 1 - 19
- Pages
- 19
- Journal Title
- Asian Journal of Social Psychology
- Volume
- 2
- Number
- 1
- Start Page
- 1
- End Page
- 19
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/cau/handle/2019.sw.cau/47472
- DOI
- 10.1111/1467-839X.00023
- ISSN
- 1367-2223
1467-839X
- Abstract
- This paper reviews the literature on the crisis in social psychology. Although the symptoms of the crisis are various, the basic problem can be identified as the inappropriate emulation of the natural sciences model. Within this approach, psychologists attempted to discover objective, abstract, universal laws of human behavior, but have largely failed to do so. The second part of this paper analyzes misconceptions that many psychologists have about objectivity and scientific methods and outlines an alternative perspective. In the third part of the paper, a comparative analysis of physical, biological, and human sciences are provided. In the final section, an alternative scientific paradigm - the transactional model, is presented. In this approach, human consciousness, agency, and creativity, both at the individual and collective level, are considered as key constructs in explaining psychological functioning. Subjective elements such as human consciousness and agency and the influences of context and meaning are explicitly integrated in the research model in search of dynamic and emergent properties of human functioning.
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