Rom Harré
Biographic Data
| ID | 114883 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rom Harré |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rom |
| FAMILY NAME | Harré |
| SIGNATURE | HARRÉ R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgetown University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2596-3140 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 126 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2727 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 123 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1956 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 16 |
Personality and public performance
My aim is to present a unified, though complex, set of ideas as to what personalities are and how we might go about studying them. Psychology has tried in the past to make itself ‘scientific’ just by changing its clothes. Instead of talking of thoughts and feelings, projects and ambitions, there has been talk of measures and numbers, and the doing of much statistical calculation. Adopting a scientific rhetoric has tempted psychologists of persona…
"Todo Es Discursivo!" Cruzando Fronteras Y Dialogando Con Rom Harré
En la segunda parte, "Vertical (dentro del campo), la psicologa social en los aos setenta y ochenta, el giro discursivo, el construccionismo social y la teora del posicionamiento toman relevancia. En la tercera parte, "Diagonal (discurso, poder y los yo)" abordamos algunos conceptos clave en ciencias sociales y en los trabajos de Rom. Por ltimo, en la cuarta parte proponemos "Nuevas lneas para el futuro". En esa seccin hablamos con el autor acerc…
Hybrid psychology as a human science
Resolving some major philosophical errors in relating behaviour to brain structures and processes can provide a firm foundation for a hybrid science that gives equal weight to both meaning making (Cultural Psychology) and brain activity (Neuroscience). Neuroscientists, however, still fall for two mereological fallacies: the first involving their use of predicates and the second in the projection onto a whole of products of interactions with whole…
Persons as the products and the producers of social acts
The topic opened with a review of several well known accounts of persons, particularly by Strawson and Stern. Persons are the originators of culturally distinct conversations. They come into being in conversational processes such as those investigated by Vygotsky. The role of indexical pronouns is made intelligible by tying them to the presentation of persons as unique fundamental social beings
Mind–Body Dualism
The person as the nexus of patterns of discursive practices
In this paper, I examine four roots of conversational practices that are particularly germane to the understanding how the uses of the word ‘person’ as displays of the concept of person are both products and producers of the intelligibility of such practices. These roots are empirical facts used as if they were necessary truths – Wittgenstein’s ‘hinges’; the resolutions of relevant mereological fallacies; the grammar of indexical expressions, par…
Developing the Mereology of Chemistry
Positioning Theory: Moral Dimensions of Social-Cultural Psychology
The Brain can be Thought of as a Tool
Integrating surrogationalism
Words of Conflict, Words of War: How the Language We Use in Political Processes Sparks Fighting
This highly insightful and cohesive group of studies reveals the power of political narratives to create conflict and peace. Words of Conflict, Words of War: How the Language We Use in Political Processes Sparks Fighting is a fascinating exploration of the narratives leaders use to position both themselves and others in the course of political processes that lead to peace or conflict. Drawing on the relatively new field of "positioning theory," e…
People and societies: Rom Harré and designing the social sciences
Democracy and Trust
Words of conflict, words of war: How the language we use in political processes sparks fighting
This highly insightful and cohesive group of studies reveals the power of political narratives to create conflict and peace. * Includes contributions from 19 scholars, offering an international perspective on positioning * Provides detailed case studies * Presents six tables and four figures * Offers an extensive reference list at the end of each chapter
Hybrid Psychology: The marriage of discourse analysis with neuroscience
As the 21st Century opened the controversial and unstable discipline of `academic psychology’ seemed to separating into two radically distinct and perhaps irreconcilable domains. Discursive psychology focused on the management of meaning in a world of norms while Neuropsychology focused on the investigation of brain and cognitive processes. These two domains can be reconciled in a hybrid science that brings them together into a synthesis more pow…
What is Love? Discourse about Emotions in Social Sciences
What is Love? Discourse about Emotions in Social Sciences The study of emotions has been one of the most important areas of research in the Social Sciences. Social Psychology has also contributed to the development of this area. In this article we analyse the contribution of social Psychology to the study of emotion, understood as a social construct, and its strong relationship with language. Specifically, we open a discussion on the basis of the…
Mécanismes de changement dans les formations sociales et formes d'action politique
À partir d'une application aux formations sociales des théories évolutionnistes darwinienne et lamarckienne, l'auteur est amené à analyser les conditions de sélection et de mutation qui expliquent le changement social. Ces considérations théoriques le conduiront à une critique du marxisme, de l'histoire et de l'anthropologie débouchant sur de nouvelles formes d'action politique fondées non plus sur la confrontation globale mais sur la création de…
The Siren Song of Substantivalism
The defence of a process philosophy as the metaphysics for the foundation of social psychology is part of a general defence of scientific realism. Realists, be they classical or neo critical realists hope to construct a dual level science—a phenomenal level resting on a transcendent level required to account for the order and stability to be found in the unfolding of the phenomena. Also required is a driving force or agency. Discursive psychologi…
Saving Critical Realism
Critical Realism aims to be both philosophically sophisticated and morally forward looking. Unfortunately the accepted form that this point of view has taken is flawed in both these aims. However, close attention to realist formats in science and the constraints that are required to give a social psychological application of them makes possible a revision of the Critical Realist scheme strengthening its scientific claim and removing certain moral…
Recent Advances in Positioning Theory
Positioning theory opens up a new dimension in the psychology of interpersonal encounters, through explicit attention to the role of rights and duties in the management of action. People are positioned or position themselves with respect to rights and duties to act within evolving story-lines, and on the basis of claims about relevant personal attributes, the discursive process of prepositioning. Some recent applications of positioning theory are…
Democracy and Trust
1. Introduction Mark E. Warren 2. Do we want trust in government? Russell Hardin 3. How can we trust our fellow citizens? Claus Offe 4. Trust, well-being and democracy Ronald Inglehart 5. Democracy and social capital Eric M. Uslaner 6. Liberty against the democratic state: on the historical and contemporary sources of American distrust Orlando Patterson 7. Trust, voluntary association and workable democracy: the contemporary American discourse of…
Safe spaces and sense of identity: Views and experiences of lesbian, gay and bisexual young people
Posicionamiento: La producción discursiva de la identidad
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Posicionamiento: La producción discursiva de la identidad
La idea de este artículo surgió de una discusión acerca de los problemas inherentes al uso del concepto de rol en el desarrollo de una psicología social de a identidad. Se explora que el concepto de posicionamiento puede usarse para facilitar el pensamiento de analistas sociales con orientación lingüística al permitir usos no contemplados por el concepto de rol. En particular, el nuevo concepto ayuda a enfocarse en los aspectos dinámicos de los e…
Resolving the emergence-reduction debate
Positioning: The Discursive Production of Selves
Rethinking Methods in Psychology
Introduction - Jonathan A Smith, Rom Harr[ac]e and Luk Van Langenhove PART ONE: SEARCHING FOR MEANINGS Semi-Structured Interviewing and Qualitative Analysis - Jonathan A Smith Grounded Theory - Kathy Charmaz Life Story Research - Ken Plummer PART TWO: DISCOURSE AS TOPIC Conversation Analysis - Paul Drew Discourse Analysis - Jonathan Potter and Margaret Wetherell Basic Principles of Transcription - Daniel C O'Connell and Sabine Kowal PART THREE: R…
The Social construction of emotions
Recent Advances in Positioning Theory
Positioning theory opens up a new dimension in the psychology of interpersonal encounters, through explicit attention to the role of rights and duties in the management of action. People are positioned or position themselves with respect to rights and duties to act within evolving story-lines, and on the basis of claims about relevant personal attributes, the discursive process of prepositioning. Some recent applications of positioning theory are…
Varieties of Positioning
Material Objects in Social Worlds
This article strongly argues the priority of symbolic, especially discursive, action over the material order in the genesis of social things. What turns a piece of stuff into a social object is its embedment in a narrative construction. The attribution of an active or a passive role to things in relation to persons is thus essentially story-relative: nothing happens or exists in the social world unless it is framed by human performative activity.…
The Construction and Deconstruction of Self in Alzheimer's Disease
The loss of self in Aizeheimer's Disease is examined from a social constructionist view of the nature of the self. Empirical evidence derived from the structure of the discourse and behaviour of three Alzheimer's sufferers is presented to show that self 1 , the self of personal identity, persists far into the end stage of the disease. Self 2 , the multiple personae that are projected into the public arena, and which require the cooperation of oth…
Conflicting Varieties of Realism: Causal Powers and the Problems of Social Structure
Proponents of the view that social structures are ontologically distinct from the people in whose actions they are immanent have assumed that structures can stand in causal relations to individual practices. Were causality to be no more than Humean concomitance correlations between structure and practices would be unproblematic. But two prominent advocates of the ontological account of structures, Bhaskar and Giddens, have also espoused a powers …
Narrativa: Problemas E Promessas De Um Paradigma Alternativo
O aumento de interesse no estudo da narrativa e seu contexto social sugere a emergência de outro caminho ao paradigma pós-positivista e um melhor refinamento da metodologia interpretativa nas ciências humanas. O problema do entendimento dos padrões dinâmicos do comportamento humano parece estar mais próximo de uma solução através dos estudos da narrativa do que até mesmo de abordagens bem conhecidas, como a utilização do modelo de regras e papéis…
Cultural Stereotypes and Positioning Theory
This paper addresses the application of positioning theory , a new emerging theoretical scheme on the issue of cultural stereotyping. First, a critical conceptual analysis of the words‘cultural stereotype’is presented. Secondly, the basic tenets of positioning theory are outlined. Finally, it will be demonstrated how the framework of positioning theory can be used to analytically refine the concept of cultural stereotype. The main upshot of the a…
Cognitive Science: A Philosophical Introduction
PART ONE: THE NATURE AND METHODS OF SCIENCE A Science for Psychology The Natural Sciences Understanding Scientific Method PART TWO: THE SEARCH FOR A SCIENCE OF HUMAN BEHAVIOUR Psychology as the Science of Mental Substance Psychology as the Science of Material Substance The Beginnings of Cognitive Science PART THREE: TOWARDS A SCIENTIFIC PSYCHOLOGY Grammar and Cognition Cognitive Science The Analytical Phase Connectionism and the Brain PART FOUR: …
Forward to Aristotle: The Case for a Hybrid Ontology
It behooves a science to pay careful attention to its ontological assumptions, especially in cases where they are likely to be complex. Psychology seems to require both material states of humans as organisms, and symbolic productions. But we must be careful not to think that the grammars of the latter are some sort of superscience. The duality shows up strongly in the difference between skilled perfomances and their material enabling conditions. …
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Disputes as Complex Social Events
Research Article| January 01 2003 Disputes as Complex Social Events: On the Uses of Positioning Theory Rom Harré; Rom Harré Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Nikki Slocum Nikki Slocum Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2003) 9 (1): 100–118. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-9-1-100 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share I…
Narrative: Problems and Promises of an Alternative Paradigm
(1997). Narrative: Problems and Promises of an Alternative Paradigm. Research on Language and Social Interaction: Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 263-283
Social being
Saving Critical Realism
Critical Realism aims to be both philosophically sophisticated and morally forward looking. Unfortunately the accepted form that this point of view has taken is flawed in both these aims. However, close attention to realist formats in science and the constraints that are required to give a social psychological application of them makes possible a revision of the Critical Realist scheme strengthening its scientific claim and removing certain moral…
Rom Harré on Social Structure and Social Change: Social Reality and the Myth of Social Structure
The question of whether social structures are efficacious can be tackled by examining how they are produced. There are roles and rules, and there are people. Only the latter have the necessary powers to generate social worlds as products. Changing the social world can be achieved only by changing the rules and customs active people follow. Selectionist models of change also draw our attention to rules. Finally, there are obstacles to social chang…
Gender Positioning: A Sixteenth/Seventeenth Century Example
Toward a Cultural Theory of Duties
This article puts forward a number of propositions as a step toward a cultural theory of duties. The concept of 'duty' is set up in contrast to that of 'rights', in that while the former is owed to others, the latter are demanded of others. We believe that the psychology of duty has been neglected. Duties are associated with important continuities in social life, and to elaborate this point we introduce the concept of carriers, symbolic devices o…
Qualitative research and computing: Methodological issues and practices in using QSR NVivo and NUD*IST
A Metaphysics for conversation: A Newtonian model of speech‐act in people‐space
The Brain can be Thought of as a Tool
The Discursive Creation of Human Psychology
Contradiction in lived and told narratives
A Note on Existence Presuppositions
A Philosopher Looks at Science
Philosophical Aspects of Cosmology
Theories of Scientific Method: The Renaissance through the Nineteenth Century
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Theories of Scientific Method: The Renaissance through the Nineteenth Century. By R. M. Blake, C. J. Ducasse and E. H. Madden. (Seattle: University of Washington Press. 1960. Pp. v + 346. Price $6.50). R. Harré R. Harré Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 12, Issue 47, April 1962, Pages 187–188, https://doi.org/10.2307/2217035 Publishe…
Counter‐Induction
On the Structure of Existential Judgements
Journal Article On the Structure of Existential Judgements Get access R. Harré R. Harré University of Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 15, Issue 58, January 1965, Pages 43–52, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218625 Published: 01 January 1965
Science, Technology, and Human Values . A. Cornelius Benjamin
The Language of Nature: An Essay in the Philosophy of Science
Book Reviews The Language of Nature : An essay in the philosophy of science. By David Hawkins. (San Francisco and London : W. H. Freeman & Co. 1964. Pp. xii + 372. Price 54s or $7.50). R. Harré R. Harré Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 16, Issue 65, October 1966, Page 408, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218535 Published: 01 October 1966
The Myth of Simplicity
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access The Myth of Simplicity. BY Mario Bunge. (Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall 1963. Pp. xiv + 239. Price 48s.) R. Harré R. Harré Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 16, Issue 62, January 1966, Pages 85–86, https://doi.org/10.2307/2217899 Published: 01 January 1966
How I See Philosophy
I. what philosophy is? I don’t know, nor have I a set formula to offer. Immediately I sit down to contemplate the question I am flooded with so many ideas, tumbling over one another, that I cannot do justice to all of them. I can merely make an attempt, a very inadequate one, to sketch with a few strokes what the lie of the land seems to me to be, tracing some lines of thought without entering upon a close-knit argument.
William Whewell and the History and Philosophy of Science
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The Principles of Scientific Thinking
Powers
How I See Philosophy
The explanation of social behaviour
The Explanation of Social Behavior
The Necessity of Natures
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In Defence of Natural Agents
Journal Article In Defence of Natueal Agents Get access E. H. Madden, E. H. Madden aState University of New York at Buffalo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar R. Harré R. Harré bLinacre College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 23, Issue 91, April 1973, Pages 117–132, https://doi.org/10.2307/2217484 Published: 01 April 1973
A note on Ms. Horton's defence of Bacon
Science As Representation: A Reply to Mr. MacKinnon
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Explicit Knowledge of Personal Style: Reply to R. H. Levine
The Structure of Tacit Knowledge
(1977). The Structure of Tacit Knowledge. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology: Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 172-177
One Man's Poison is Another's Staple
Personality
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Personality. Edited by Rom Harré. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell. 1977. Pp. viii + 260. Price £7.50) B. A. Farrell B. A. Farrell Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 30, Issue 121, October 1980, Pages 374–376, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219538 Published: 01 October 1980
General and Theoretical: On Human Finery . 2nd ed. Quentin Bell
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