Piaget's Social Psychology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8975328 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard F Kitchener (0000-0003-2948-7767, Colorado State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 253-277 |
| Publication date | 1981-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8308 • E-ISSN: 1468-5914 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-5914.1981.tb00037.x |
| OpenAlex | W2056947532 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 25 |
Piaget's social psychology is not widely discussed among psychologists, partly because much of it is still contained in untranslated French works. In this article I summarize the main lines of Piaget's social psychology and briefly indicate its relation to current theories in social psychology. Rejecting both Durkheim's sociological holism and Tarde's individualism, Piaget advances a sociological relativism (relationalism) in which all social facts are reducible to social relations and these, in turn, are reducible to rules, values and signs. Piaget's theory of social values takes the form of a social exchange theory characterized in an abstract logical way. Piaget claims social exchange requires normative principles of reciprocity and that individual social development results in such an equilibrium because rationality itself is social and based upon social cooperation. These views, in turn, derive from Piaget's orthogenetic views concerning the course of evolution: development can be characterized as an increase in equilibrium manifested both in individual action and in social interaction
Epistemology · Holism · Normative · Rationality · Reciprocity (cultural anthropology · Social change · Social exchange theory · Social philosophy · Social relation · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Cognitive and psychological constructs research · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Social Representations and Identity
Holistic Structuralism, Elementarism and Piaget’s Theory of ‘Relationalism’
Bibliography of philosophical work on Piaget
Neglect of the foreign invisible
Genetic epistemology, history of science and genetic psychology
Piagetian epistemology
Genetic epistemology, equilibration and the rationality of scientific change
Piaget and Social Economy
The Cognitive Origins of Bourdieu's Habitus
International Collaboration as Construction of Knowledge and its Constraints
Reading Piaget's Subject
Social exchange theory
Sociological theory
Theories in social psychology
Handbook of Social Psychology
The developmental psychology of Jean Piaget.
The construction of reality in the child.
The value of examinations as determining a teacher's fitness for work
Foundations of social psychology
Social behavior
The Child's Conception of Physical Causality
Epigenesis
The Elementary Structures of Kinship
System and Structure
The Rules of Sociological Method
Genetic epistemology, normative epistemology, and psychologism
Experience and the Growth of Understanding
The Nature and Types of Sociological Theory
Exchange and power in social life
The psychology of intelligence
The Norm of Reciprocity
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
A Theory of Social Integration
Social Behavior as Exchange
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,24 |
| Citation span | 1985 - 2015 (31) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |