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Aug 28, 2022 · As will be discussed below, a credible case can also be made for social psychology as a historically legitimate subdiscipline of sociology. In light of this potentially contestable and dual heritage, social psychology should perhaps be seen as having two major candidate parent disciplines – psychology and sociology.
- j.m.m.good@durham.ac.uk
Social Psychology: Discipline, Interdiscipline or Transdiscipline? 17 to an intra-psychic level of explanation, for example in the notion of social representations (Moscovici, 1982; 1984). PSP has largely remained bound to a set of topics that have now become ossified as being the main concerns of social psychology.
- James Moir
- 2015
The 1970s and 1980s saw a “marriage” of social and cognitive psychology in which the concepts and procedures of cognitive psychology were applied to the domain of the social. A cognitive appropriation of the psychological took place, not just in social psychology, but in the parent disciplines as well (Gardner, 1985).
- James Good
Apr 27, 2015 · say that social psychology, a subfield of its parent disciplines, sociology and psychology, shares common interests with sociology (studying how people behave in groups), and personality ...
- Alex Bennet
respective sub-disciplines of social psychology. My experience has lead me to the conclusion that a major contributing factor to the difficulties between the two social psychologies is the very fact that they are embedded in different overall disciplines. Each of these disciplines has its own history,
- Carmi Schooler
- 1991
ABSTRACT. Social psychology, defined as “psychology of all that which is social in its nature”, owes its existence to two of the major disciplines and fields of social sciences, psychology and sociology. For this reason, it does not only exhibit a considerable relationship with its parent subjects psychology and sociology but also with the ...
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Social psychology is different to sociology because sociology pertains to the behaviours of a society, whereas social psychology pertains to the behaviours of the individual. The two disciplines do share interests within the same issues such as violence, prejudice and marriage, and often through combining the two disciplines it can provide a more comprehensive overview of a specific issue.