학술논문

Social Psychology of Facts, Processes and Projects. Object and Time
Document Type
article
Author
Source
Athenea Digital, Iss 9, Pp 78-99 (2006)
Subject
Temporality
Social Psychology
History of scholarship and learning. The humanities
AZ20-999
Social sciences (General)
H1-99
Language
Catalan; Valencian
English
Spanish; Castilian
Portuguese
ISSN
1578-8946
Abstract
A dimension that must be considered, in the reflection that social sciences offer to society, is temporality. I would like to highlight the implicit idea of temporality within the different forms of psychosocial knowledge. In this article I propose that the different types of social psychology orientations can be situated on an axis of temporality which makes a distinction between those orientations that assume that the object of social knowledge is a fact (that is an object without temporality, being change a mere succession of independent facts), and those orientations that assume that their object is a process (that is an object in movement or perpetual change). Finally, I propose a potential social psychology of projects as an essential part of my own concept of what social psychology is