| Description |
1 online resource (x, 186 pages) |
| Series |
SUNY series, alternatives in psychology |
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SUNY series, alternatives in psychology.
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| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1. Psychology and the Question of Agency -- Some Relevant Background for What Follows -- Psychology's Disavowal of Agency -- Aspirations -- 2. Reductionism in Psychology -- Historical Sketch -- Research Practices and the Construction of Pseudo-Psychological Kinds -- Roles of Professional Psychology -- Another Kind of Reductionism in Psychology -- Antidote in Brief -- 3. Between Hard Determinism and Radical Freedom -- Definitions and Distinctions -- Critical Consideration of Some Notable Attempts at Soft Determinism -- Hermeneutics and Agency -- 4. Undetermination and Irreducibility of Agency -- Argument for the Underdetermination of Agency -- Contemporary Programs of Reductionism and the Irreducibility of Agency -- Summary and Links -- 5. Theory of Situated, Emergent, and Deliberative Agency -- Levels of Reality -- Existential Starting Point and a Brief Conception of Personhood -- Developmental Emergence of Situated, Deliberative Agency and Psychological Kinds -- Understanding and Care within Traditions of Living -- Summarizing Our Theory of Agency and Psychological Kinds -- Implications for Understanding Psychological Phenomena -- Final Word -- 6. Putting Agency into Psychology -- Re-envisioning Psychological Research: Reinforcement Theory and Beyond -- Re-envisioning Psychological Practice -- Sociopolitical Consequences of Situated, Emergent, and Deliberative Agency -- Concluding Comment |
| Summary |
Annotation. Disciplinary psychology has failed to achieve a coherent conception of human agency. Instead, it oscillates between two differing conceptions of agency that are equally untenable: a scientistic, reductive approach to choice and action, and an instrumental approach that celebrates a romantic notion of free will. This book examines theoretical, philosophical psychology and argues for a historically and socioculturally situated human capacity for choosing and acting in ways not entirely determined by culture and/or biology. The authors present a detailed developmental theory of how agentic capability emerges from the pre-reflective activity of humans in a real physical and social world |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-174) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Autonomy (Psychology)
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Personality.
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Autonomy (Psychology)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Sugarman, Jeff, 1955-
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Thompson, Janice, 1964-
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| ISBN |
1417536055 |
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9781417536054 |
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0791457265 |
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9780791457269 |
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0791457257 |
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9780791457252 |
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9780791486849 |
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0791486842 |
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