Modern dialectics in social psychology: A reappraisal

Georgoudi, Marianthi

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“…Some of the necessary features of dialectical thinking were considered to be the following: the entertainment of either contradictory or complementary factors, or both; the entertainment of these factors seen not as a simple interaction of independent entities, but as a developmental transformation of the whole system or idea of which they are a part; the directionality of this interplay being not a haphazard movement of uncoordinated elements but aiming at a meaningful synthesis; the conception of interdependence between knower-known, part-whole, or internal-external factors; and the recognition of the synthesis as dynamic and open to further developments or successive transformations (cf. Basseches, 1980;Georgoudi, 1983a).…”

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Dialectics in attribution research: A reevaluation of the dispositional-situational causal dichotomy.

Georgoudi¹

1985

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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The contribution of dispositional and situational factors to the explanation of hypothetical situations was studied. Subjects rated items describing different types of events (accidents, occurrences, coincidences) on three attributional scales (for dispositional causality, situational causality, and dispositional-and-situational causality) and then gave a written account of their judgments. Each factor's contribution was found to be a function of the type of event represented in each item. While there was agreement on the degree of contribution of a principal causal factor to the explanation of a hypothetical situation, an analysis of subjects' accounts with respect to dialectical thinking revealed individual differences in their overall attributional patterns. Furthermore, subjects did not perform consistently (either in a dialectical or nondialectical fashion) in their accounts from item-to-item and thus, dialectical thinking was not shown to be a consistent, individual trait. Theoretical implications for attributions deriving from dialectical theory were also discussed.This article is based on doctoral dissertation completed at Temple University. I wish to thank the members of my dissertation committee, Robert E. Lana (chair),

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“…The concept of dialectics has been used extensively and variously in psychology (Altman & Gauvain, 1981; Basseches, 1980; Georgoudi, 1983a; Kvale, 1976; Smith, 1977). Fundamental to this position is the fusion of the subject-object dichotomy and the emphasis on their interrelatedness.…”

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Dialectics in attribution research: A reevaluation of the dispositional-situational causal dichotomy.

Georgoudi¹

1985

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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“…Ethics of the scientific enterprise became such a concern that by the mid-1970s what seemed like an endless frontier was viewed as an ideology of limits (in the form of self-imposed guidelines and federal rules and regulations) (Holton, 1978). A more fundamental threat to certainty arose from the doubts raised by Kenneth Gergen (1973Gergen ( , 1978Gergen ( , 1982, in a series of provocative articles, over the idea of universals in a discipline devoted to the study of human behaviour. These doubts took the form of questions about the epistemological context of claims that behaviour obeyed any common laws and mechanisms.…”

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Contextualism and its implications for psychological inquiry

Jaeger

Rosnow

1988

British J of Psychology

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A variety of alternative orientations to psychological inquiry have arisen in response to attacks on mechanistic and reductionistic assumptions about human activity. Despite their differences, these alternative viewpoints seem to be converging on a set of common themes that can be subsumed within a world view known as contextualism. This paper examines the basic assumptions and principles of a contextualist perspective, highlighting its emphasis on the unity, plurality, spontaneity and ecological dependency of human activity. We advance an essentially pluralistic and relativistic thesis in exploring the theoretical and methodological implications of a contextualist socio-psychological science.' " Knowing" ', claims William McGuire (1983), 'involves the inherent tragedy that[the] necessary representations of the known are necessarily misrepresentations : one cannot survive without doing it [i.e. using representations] but one cannot do it very well'. The inadequacy of knowledge, he suggests, stems from the nature of the human cognitive system. As the environment's richness of information often exceeds one's capacity to process it directly, one's representation of what is 'out there' is reduced and distorted to fit in with one's available cognitive categories. One needs to know, that is to represent a thing-in-itself in a reduced and simplified form, just so that one can cope with that richness and complexity.The abstract representation of knowledge in theory, McGuire (1983) argues, offers even less cause for optimism. By its very generalized and abstract nature, theory runs the risk of dangerously oversimplifying and distorting the events and experiences it is said to represent. Theory represents each situation only vaguely and often becomes overgeneralized to situations beyond its scope. In this perspective on theory and knowledge, the knower, particularly the theorist, is likened to 'a ropewalker who, on arriving at a precipice of ignorance, ties one end of a chain of inferences to a stake at its brink, and, flinging the free end as far as possible out over the abyss, runs quickly along the thrown chain to get the maximum distance before plunging to disaster ' (McGuire, 1983, p. 3).This image of knowledge as inherently tragic can, we think, be understood, not

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“…Su interés se centra en el análisis de la indisolubilidad fundamental entre individuo y sociedad: desde la perspectiva dialéctica, individuo y sociedad no son contemplados como entidades separadas que sólo estuvieran vinculadas por influencias mutuas entre naturalezas distintas, sino que, al contrario, aparecen como entidades de la misma naturaleza, fusionadas en un proceso dialéctico de relaciones creadas y recreadas. Existe, pues, una continuidad esencial entre lo psicológico y lo social, ya que, por definición, ambos están entrelazados dentro de los procesos de relaciones sociales en el contexto sociocultural (Georgoudi, 1983).…”

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¿Hay vida más allá del cognitivismo?. Encontrando respuestas en la psicología social.

Díez¹

2013

Informació Psicològica

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El objetivo de este trabajo es presentar una revisión de algunas orientaciones teóricas surgidas a finales del siglo XX, que se postulan como alternativas a los modelos predominantes del procesamiento de la información. En primer lugar, se describen las características distintivas de la orientación cognitivista. A continuación, se exponen las principales críticas vertidas sobre esta orientación. Posteriormente, se hace una caracterización de algunas escuelas de pensamiento, surgidas en la psicología social, que recogen esta crítica y presentan posiciones alternativas a las teorías cognitivistas.

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Modern dialectics in social psychology: A reappraisal

Cited by 12 publications

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Dialectics in attribution research: A reevaluation of the dispositional-situational causal dichotomy.

Dialectics in attribution research: A reevaluation of the dispositional-situational causal dichotomy.

Contextualism and its implications for psychological inquiry

¿Hay vida más allá del cognitivismo?. Encontrando respuestas en la psicología social.

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