1. Psychology and sociology between the two centuries: a review of recent contributions.
- Author
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Simon, Donatella
- Subjects
PSYCHOLOGY ,SOCIAL sciences ,POSITIVISM ,SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
The paper deals with some recent works, which are focused on the relationship between psychology and the social sciences from the end of the XIXth century to the beginning of the XXth one. Moving from Moscovici's contribution against the anti psychological postulate in sociology, the paths of psychology in France and Germany are analysed, with particular attention to experimental rest catches (on sensation, memory, thought) in France and Germany (whose documents are also in Ribot's Revue Philosophiques), inquires in historical psychology (with H. Taint) and collective psychology (with G. Tarde, S. Sighele, G. It Bon), up to the project of an historical science founded on psychological postulates (with Dilthey and, afterwards, with Simmel). The article testifies that the play of interdisciplinary and transnational relationships contributed to orient the social science towards a progressive scukuralizationu, by giving up the naturalistic postulates of first Spencerian positivism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 1992