Sociological social psychology: routes, directions and contemporaneity of a theoretical and methodological tradition

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1807-1384.2016v13n3p101 The article aims to accomplish the task of revisiting the story of a sociological tradition that was born and developed as a social psychology directed to the study of individuals in interaction and posits a concept of "subject" as a capable and reflective agent, which at all times invents and reinvents himself, peopling the social settings, forming and transforming social reality. The tradition of sociological social psychology begins in France with Tarde and Le Bon and was institutionalized in the United States, consisting of the effective model of sociology practiced in its early years there.