PSYC 2700H Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Discursive Psychology, Corporatism, Psych
19 Sep 2015
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The dickenson text covers aspects of social psychology providing mainstream north american (mainly positivist, individual-focused, quantitative) approaches but also discusses alternative approaches including understandings from discursive psyc and critical psyc (2 more european approaches) The text uses the word critical in 2 senses. 2 encouraging the reader to use their critical faculties in reading the different takes on social psychology. Discursive psychology looks at how people are mutually inter- dependent and how we create meaning by interacting using language and symbols. It looks at language as our representational tool and with a focus on what language does and how it constructs and limits how we can understand the world and our self. Problems we see in individuals are actually most usually socio-cultural economic and political problems. Critical psychologists see individualization of issues as a politically motivated strategy of keeping the status quo (corporatism, capitalism, imperialism, sexism, racism) hidden from view. Na mainstream psychology contributes to knowledge linked to.
