Social Turn in the Historiography of Psychology and Institutional Independence of Psychology
Keywords:
Science, Profession, Techological research, Ideology of social control, Philosophical and social criticismAbstract
This essay briefly considers the institutionalization of psychology. It is argued, based on the recent social turn
in the historiography of the discipline, that psychology gained institutional recognition rather as profession than science. With
the process of social, political and cultural legitimation of the discipline, its role as a science was considered of secondary
importance, and in mesalliance with the ideology of social control, psychology became an independent discipline with technological
research practices. It is suggested that there was a lack of philosophical and social critique in order to break away
from the mesalliances of the discipline, as well as to undo, or even to begin, its practices of technological research.
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London: George Allen & Company, Ltd. (Trabalho original
publicado em 1912).
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Abib, J.A.D. (1993b). "A psicologia é ciência?" Ciência é articulação
de discursos da filosofia, da história da ciência e da psicologia.
Psicologia: Teoria e Pesquisa, 9, 465-486.
Abib, J.A.D. (1996a). O legado da psicologia, fin-de-siècle. Revista
de Ciências Humanas, 5, 139-158.
Abib, J.A.D. (1996b). Revoluções psicológicas: Um retorno a
Wilhelm Wundt, William James e outros clássicos. Cadernos
de História e Filosofia da Ciência, 6, 107-143.
Ash, M.G. (1980a). Experimental psychology in Germany before
1914: Aspects of an academic identity problem. Psychological
Research, 42, 75-86.
Ash, M.G. (1980b). Wilhelm Wundt and Oswald Kiilpe on the institutional
status of psychology: An academic controversy in
historical context. Em W.J. Bringmann & RW. Tweney (Orgs.),
Wundt studies (pp. 396-421). Toronto: Hogrefe, Inc.
Ash, M.G. (1987a). Introduction. Em M.G. Ash & W.R. Woodward
(Orgs.), Psychology in twentieth-century thought and
society (pp. 1-11). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Ash, M.G. (1987b). Psychology and politics in interwar Vienna
Psychological Institute, 1922-1942. Em M.G. Ash & W.R.
Woodward (Orgs.), Psychology in twentieth-century thought
and society (pp. 143-164). Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
Benjamin, W. (1984). A criança, o brinquedo, a educação. (M.V.
Mazzari, Trad.) São Paulo: Summus Editorial. (Trabalho original
publicado em 1969).
Bonin, W.F. (1991). Diccionario de los grandes psicólogos. (Ð’.Ð.
Klein, Trad.) México: Fondo de Cultura Econômica. (Trabalho
original publicado em 1983).
Boring, E. (1950). A history of experimental psychology. New York:
Appleton-Century-Crofts. (Trabalho original publicado em
1929).
Canguilhem, G. (1978). О normal e o patológico. (M.T.R. de С.
Barrocas, Trad.) Rio de Janeiro: Forense-Universitária. (Trabalho
original publicado em 1966).
Danziger, K. (1979a). The social origins of modern psychology.
Em A.R. Buss (Org.). Psychology in social context (pp. 27-
45). New York: Irvington.
Danziger, K. (1979b). The positivist repudiation of Wundt. Journal
of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 15, 205-230.
Danziger, K. (1980). Wundt's theory of behavior and volition. Em
R.W. Rieber (Org.), Wilhelm Wundt and the making of a scientific
psychology (pp. 89-115). New York: Plenum Press.
Danziger, K. (1985). The origins of the psychological experiment
as a social institution. American Psychologist, 40, 133-140.
Danziger, K. (1987). Social context and investigative practice in
early twentieth-century. Em M.G. Ash & W.R. Woodward
(Orgs.), Psychology in twentieth-century thought and society
(pp. 13-33). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Evans, R.B. (1990). William James, The Principles of Psychology,
and experimental psychology. American Journal of Psychology,
103, 433-447.
Farr, R.M. (1983). Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920) and the origins of
psychology as an experimental and social science. British Journal
of Social Psychology, 22, 289-301.
Geuter, U. (1987). German psychology during the nazi period. Em
M.G. Ash & W.R. Woodward (Orgs.), Psychology in twentieth-
century thought and society (pp. 165-187). Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
Haeberlin, H.K. (1980). The theoretical foundations of Wundt's
folk psychology. Em R. W. Rieber (Org.), Wilhelm Wundt and
the making of a scientific psychology (pp. 229-249). New York:
Plenum Press (Trabalho original publicado em 1916).
Heidbreder, E. (1981). Psicologias do século vinte. (L. S. Blandy,
Trad.) São Paulo: Editora Mestre Jou. (Trabalho original publicado
em 1933).
Herrnstein, R.J. & Boring, E. G. (1971). Textos básicos de história
da psicologia. (D. M. Leite, Trad.) São Paulo: Editora Herder.
(Trabalho original publicado em 1966).
James, W. (1950). The principles of psychology. New York: Dover
Publications, Inc. (Trabalho original publicado em 1890).
James, W. (1983a). Talks to teachers on psychology. Cambridge:
Harvard University Press. (Trabalho original publicado em
1899).
James, W (1983b). A plea for psychology as a 'natural science'.
Em F. Burkhardt (Org.), William James essays in psychology
(pp. 270-277). Cambridge: Harvard University Press. (Trabalho
original publicado em 1892).
James, W. (1984). Psychology: Briefer course. Cambridge: Harvard
University Press. (Trabalho original publicado em 1892).
Koyré, A. (1982). Estudos de história do pensamento científico.
(M. Ramalho, Trad.) Brasília: Editora Universidade de Brasília.
(Trabalho original publicado em 1963).
Leary, D. E. (1979). Wundt and after: Psychology's shifting relations
with the natural sciences, social sciences, and philosophy.
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 15,231 -
241.
Leary, D.E. (1980). The intentions and heritage of Descartes and
Locke: Toward a recognition of the moral basis of modern psychology.
The Journal of General Psychology, 102, 283-3 !0.
Marcuse, H. (1979). A ideologia da sociedade industrial: O homem
unidimensional. (G. Rebuá, Trad.) Rio de Janeiro: Zahar
Editores. (Trabalho original publicado em 1964).
Marx, M.H. & Hillix, W.A. (1976). Sistemas e teorias em psicologia.
(A. Cabral, Trad.) São Paulo: Editora Cultrix. (Trabalho
original publicado em 1963).
Rappaport, J. (1977). Community psychology: Values, research, and
action. Chicago: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc.
Robinson, D.N. (1993). Is there a jamesian tradition in psychology?
American Psychologist, 48, 638-643.
Rorty, R. (1991). Essays on Heidegger and others. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
Sahakian, W.S. (1987). Historia у sistemas de la psicologia. (A.S.
Torres, Trad.) Madrid: Editorial Tecnos. (Trabalho original
publicado em 1975).
Schultz, D.P. & Schultz, S.E. (s.d.). História da psicolologia moderna.
(A.U. Sobral e M.S. Gonçalves, Trads.) São Paulo: Editora
Cultrix. (Trabalho original publicado em 1992).
Wundt, W. (1921). Die Psychologie im Kampf ums Dasein. Em W.
Wundt (Org.). Kleine Schriften (pp. 515-543). Stuttgart: Alfred
Kroner Verlag. (Trabalho original publicado em 1913).
Wundt, W. (1973). An introduction to psychology. (R. Pintner, Trad.)
London: George Allen & Company, Ltd. (Trabalho original
publicado em 1912).
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Damásio Abib, J. A. (2012). Social Turn in the Historiography of Psychology and Institutional Independence of Psychology. Psicologia: Teoria E Pesquisa, 14(1). Retrieved from https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/revistaptp/article/view/17311
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