Emile Durkheim and Sociologismic Psychology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2200595 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Harry Alpert (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1939 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 64-70 |
| Publication date | 1939-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9602 • E-ISSN: 1537-5390 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/218209 |
| OpenAlex | W2052466057 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
Emile Durkheim and his co-workers on the Annee sociologique have vigorously urged that, since man is a social and cultural product and since society provides the necessary conditions of personality development and expression, psychology must be made a sociologically conscious discipline. Society creates in the individual the self-control, attention, and effort necessary for sustained action and hence expression. It also provides man with his values, ideals, standards, and sympathies. Therefore, a comprehensive human psychology must include a sociology of values, of thought and knowledge, of mental states, of emotions, of language, etc. These studies, termed "sociologismic," involve three dangers: (I) the tendency to ignore the biological basis of human nature and to reduce the individual to an automaton impassively receiving and conforming to a social heritage; (2) the tendency to invent psychological principles ad hoc or to adopt implicitly some outmoded psychological system; and (3) the tendency to hypostatize society and social forces. The Durkheimians have not altogether avoided these pitfalls, but Durkheim himself must be counted among the most cautious of them. He and his disciples have given affirmative evidence of the fruitfulness of studying what Professor Delacroix has aptly termed the "social dimension" of psychical data
Action (physics) · Epistemology · Expression (computer science) · Personality · Product (mathematics) · Reflexive pronoun · Sociology · Emile Durkheim and Sociology · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Social Representations and Identity
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 1973 - 2012 (40) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |