Michael W Katzko

Biographic Data

ID184146
NAMEMichael W Katzko
GIVEN NAMESMichael W
FAMILY NAMEKatzko
SIGNATUREKATZKO M W
AFFILIATIONSRadboud University Nijmegen
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS10
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2000
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
H-INDEX2

  • Special Section: Pruning the Tree of Knowledge

    Open AccessMichael W KatzkoARTICLETheory & Psychology2008

    There are several intellectual projects embedded within the Tree of Knowledge (ToK) System and they tend to blur together at critical junctions. The aim of this commentary is to identify some of these strands of analysis and their implicit metaphysical presuppositions. It is argued that the presuppositions are not consistent across the different strands. The strands can continue to be pursued independently, insofar as they have distinct purposes.…

  • Unity Versus Multiplicity: A Conceptual Analysis of the Term “Self” and Its Use in Personality Theories

    Open AccessMichael W KatzkoARTICLEJournal of Personality2003

    There is no single answer to the unity–multiplicity problem regarding the self for the simple reason that the term “self” is used by too many different theorists in too many different ways. In fact, there are several important substantive topic areas that need to be distinguished and studied scientifically. The topic areas I examine in this article are reflexivity , unit coherence , agency , and subjectivity . Each of these areas will be evaluate…

  • The Construction of `Social Constructionism: A Case Study in the Rhetoric of Debate

    Open AccessMichael W KatzkoARTICLETheory & Psychology2002

    There is a dimension to the ongoing debate on `constructionism' that deserves closer scrutiny. In this paper I wish to draw attention to some features of the debate as movements in opposition, illustrated with examples comparing the articles in Theory & Psychology, 11(3), with literature outside psychology. One unfortunate consequence of this type of debate is that it works against the best of what `constructionism' has to offer to psychology. I …

  • The rhetoric of psychological research and the problem of unification in psychology

    Michael W KatzkoARTICLEAmerican Psychologist2002

    There has been in the field of psychology a long and well-documented discontent with an apparent disorganization in its literature, most often interpreted as reflecting the absence of a unifying theory. This article examines some alternative ways in which some of the disorganization is being actively created by forms of argumentation used in reporting and discussing psychological research. One institutionalized form of argumentation used in repor…

  • The rhetoric of psychological research and the problem of unification in psychology

    Michael W KatzkoARTICLEAmerican Psychologist2002

  • Life contexts and health-related selves in old age

    Open AccessGerben J Westerhof, Michael W Katzko et al.ARTICLEJournal of Aging Studies2001Cited by: 7References: 6

  • Individualism and Collectivism in the Personal Meaning System of Elderly Adults: The United States and Congo/Zaire as an Example

    Open AccessGerben J Westerhof, Freya Dittmann-Kohli et al.ARTICLEJournal of Cross-Cultural…2000Cited by: 3References: 23

    Two problems in cross-cultural research are the increasingly complex definitions of individualism and collectivism and the relation between culture and self. A cultural psychological perspective on the construction of meaning can address both problems. In attributing meaning to self and life, people appropriate cultural values so that even the most authentic level of experience, the self, is culturally constituted. People are expected to use diff…