Interobjectivity: Representations and artefacts in Cultural Psychology

Sammut, Gordon; Daanen, Paul; Sartawi, Mohammad

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“…The impacts and effects of the objects themselves, the role of inter‐objectivity next to inter‐subjectivity, and the idea of objects being “constitutive” for social practices all have to be considered’ (p. 212). In this sense, SPT can also be said to endorse a strong version of the social, , but explicitly conceptualizing and empirically examining interobjectivity as a process, therefore trying to overcome the fact that ‘the concept of intersubjectivity falls short by neglecting the influence of artefacts and by failing to appreciate relative objectivities that permit inter‐objective relations to take place.’ However, at the same time, and while doing so, one might say that SPT therefore aims to be, and generally is seen to be, more of a sociological or cultural theory, whereas SRT (see below) is intrinsically a socio‐psychological theory.…”

Section: ‘Personal Change Doesn't Equal Social Change’: a Review Of Tmentioning

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Developing a critical agenda to understand pro‐environmental actions: contributions from Social Representations and Social Practices Theories

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Devine‐Wright

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WIREs Climate Change

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Debates over the value and compatibility of different approaches to understanding and changing environmental-relevant actions proliferate across the social sciences. This article reviews and discusses some of the (socio-)psychological and sociological approaches in those debates. We will start by critically reviewing the (socio-)psychological perspectives, highlighting two main shortcomings. First, they are often partial in their focus-concentrating on the consumption side of climate-relevant actions and, relatedly in changing these actions at the individual level. They tend to assume that individual change equates to social change and, with that, fail to contextualize 'anti'-environmental actions in current neoliberal, capitalist societies. Second, they usually present the mainstream (socio-)psychological approaches, which are ontologically individualistic and cognitive, as the only existent ones, therefore neglecting other perspectives within Social Psychology which might actually be (more) compatible with sociological perspectives. We then suggest that Social Representations Theory (SRT), as an ontologically socialpsychological approach and a theory of social change, might be reconciled with sociological approaches, such as Social Practices Theory (SPT), in contrast to the more individualistic (socio-)psychological perspectives. After reviewing the main tenets of SRT, its discrepancies and potential synergies with SPT, we discuss how both can be articulated to understand different stages of the social change process toward more environmentally sustainable societies. While SPT might be more suitable to understand stability or how some actions become habitual, SRT might be better equipped to understand how those change, or how individuals and groups negotiate new actions with old ones. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. How to cite this article:WIREs Clim Change 2016. doi: 10.1002/wcc.417 INTRODUCTION'Today, there's no greater threat to our planet than climate change' 1 'And when we dream it, when we dream it, when we dream it Let's dream it, we'll dream it for free, free money' 2 A fter World War II, environmental social movements began to develop in the public sphere to demand the end of the exploitation of the Earth by and for human activity, as this was drastically changing and endangering it. 3 Still today, and as highlighted by the President of the USA, Barack Obama, in his weekly speech just before the Earth Day 2015, climate change is by many-even if not by all 4,5 -seen as the biggest current threat to this planet. Within the social sciences this has led to research into how to understand and change people's environmentally relevant actions a being much shaped by the idea of the anthropocene, that is, that humans are the cause for the destruction of the Earth and its ecosystems (e.g., see . This has led to much research on human behavior relevant to climate change, which can be organized into three main areas: adaptation to climate change (e.g., how do individuals and groups living in coastal areas adapt t...

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Developing a critical agenda to understand pro‐environmental actions: contributions from Social Representations and Social Practices Theories

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“…16 The concept is used here more specifically to balance the concept of intersubjectivity in studies of culture and inter-group processes. The combination of these two different meanings of interobjectivity has, furthermore, been developed and used in a study on street-art in London, 17 arguing that radical differences in the view and construction of street art as an object were also bound together by certain cross-cultural similarities. 18 These different takes on interobjectivity as a relational process of material heterogeneities (Latour) and as a product or objectification of cross-cultural commonality (Moghaddam) suit the arguments in this article well (as clarified below), in that I argue for an approach that would encompass both (and more).…”

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Interobjectivity in architectural research and theory: towards a meta-theory of materiality and the effects of architecture and everyday life

Kärrholm

2014

The Journal of Architecture

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“…The concepts of interobjectivity and the trans‐subjective overlap significantly. Interobjectivity has been defined as an account of shared meanings that structure interactions between subjects through objects (Sammut, Daanen & Sartawi, ). In this respect, trans‐subjectivity would indeed be one form of interobjectivity, provided that we understand the object in question as type a kind of “social objectivity” rather than an object per se.…”

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Towards a Lacanian Group Psychology: The Prisoner's Dilemma and the Trans‐subjective

Hook

2012

J Theory Soc Behav

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Revisiting Lacan's discussion of the puzzle of the prisoner's dilemma provides a means of elaborating a theory of the trans-subjective. An illustration of this dilemma provides the basis for two important arguments. Firstly, that we need to grasp a logical succession of modes of subjectivity: from subjectivity to inter-subjectivity, and from inter-subjectivity to a form of trans-subjective social logic. The trans-subjective, thus conceptualized, enables forms of social objectivity that transcend the level of (inter)subjectivity, and which play a crucial role in consolidating given societal groupings. The paper advances, secondly, that various declarative and symbolic activities are important non-psychological bases -trans-subjective foundations -for psychological identifications of an inter-subjective sort. These assertions link interesting to recent developments in the contemporary social psychology of interobjectivity, which likewise emphasize a type of objectivity that plays an indispensible part in co-ordinating human relations and understanding.Keywords: Psychoanalysis, identification, inter-objectivity, inter-subjectivity, trans-subjective. Towards a Lacanian group psychology: The prisoner's dilemma and the trans-subjectiveThis paper explores the well-known logical puzzle of the prisoner's dilemma and does so via the work of Jacques Lacan (2006b), who utilizes it as a means of grounding what we might term a theory of the trans-subjective. My hope in this respect is to make a contribution to a series of recent developments in the contemporary social psychology of interobjectivity, and to do so by means of the 'extra-disciplinary' source of psychoanalytic theory. More specifically, I would like to use the prisoner's dilemma, and Lacan's associated 3-fold schema of logical time, to make two general arguments. I want to assert, firstly, that we need to grasp a logical succession of modes of subjectivity -from subjectivity to inter-subjectivity, and from inter-subjectivity to a form of transsubjective social logic -if we are to understand the subject-to-society relation. This sequence of modalities of subjectivity and, more particularly, the distinction between the inter-subjective and the trans-subjective, will be crucial in appreciating the difference between what are sometimes referred to as symbolic and imaginary forms of identification (Lacan, 1988a(Lacan, , 1988bŽižek, 1996).My second key objective in the paper is to advance that various declarative, institutional and symbolic activities are important nonpsychological bases for imaginary (or what we might loosely call 'psychological') identifications. In other words, I am making an argument about the importance of certain symbolic constituents as conditions of possibility for the existence of psychological identifications. This second objective links back to the first, inasmuch as symbolic identifications always entail the dimension of the trans-subjective, whereas what I am calling imaginary identifications do not. Importantly, although Lacan ...

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Interobjectivity: Representations and artefacts in Cultural Psychology

Cited by 38 publications

References 21 publications

Developing a critical agenda to understand pro‐environmental actions: contributions from Social Representations and Social Practices Theories

Developing a critical agenda to understand pro‐environmental actions: contributions from Social Representations and Social Practices Theories

Interobjectivity in architectural research and theory: towards a meta-theory of materiality and the effects of architecture and everyday life

Towards a Lacanian Group Psychology: The Prisoner's Dilemma and the Trans‐subjective

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