The Paranoid Pseudo-Community

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2201692
AutoresNorman Cameron (autor de correspondencia)
Año1943
Volumen49
Número1
Páginas32-38
Fecha de publicación1943-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAmerican Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0002-9602 • E-ISSN: 1537-5390
EditorialUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/219306
OpenAlexW2016905612
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas11

Social communication depends upon the conformity of symbolic behavior with prevailing linguistic patterns. Adults differ markedly in the degree to which they have developed and maintained the social skills underlying communication. Those with inadequate social learning in this direction are likely to prove incompetent under conditions of unusual stress. Paranoid developments represent one outcome. Out of the fragments of the social behavior of others the paranoid individual organizes a pseudo-community whose functions then seem to be focused upon him. His own reactions to this supposed community of response bring him into open conflict with the actual community and lead to his temporary or permanent isolation from its affairs

Conformity · Developmental psychology · Economics · Isolation (microbiology) · Microeconomics · Outcome (game theory) · Political science · Psychotherapist · Social conflict · Social isolation · Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics · Law · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Psychology · Social Psychology · Social Representations and Identity