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Article: Yankee Micro Social Psychology Part I: Individualism and its Social Shadows - The subject of social psychology seems to be an oasis from the relentlessly individualist orientation of psychology. But in the US is the same old social contract theory foundation where the individual is thought to interact in a voluntary, accidental & incidental way with society. Yet there is opposition. While the work of social reference theory is not Marxist, it is deeply social in a way similar to the work of George Mead.

Article: Yankee Micro Social Psychology Part I: Individualism and its Social Shadows - The subject of social psychology seems to be an oasis from the relentlessly individualist orientation of psychology. But in the US is the same old social contract theory foundation where the individual is thought to interact in a voluntary, accidental & incidental way with society. Yet there is opposition. While the work of social reference theory is not Marxist, it is deeply social in a way similar to the work of George Mead.

Orientation Developing a Marxist social psychology is a very important aspect of explaining what is going on within the individual in relation to society as well as what is going on in small group interactions between themselves. What we find when we examine social psychology in Yankeedom is what you might suspect, and that is

Lorraine Daston Why is there no epistemology of the humanities that is even remotely comparable to the epistemology of the sciences? Why is it that humanists can gesture to only a handful of seminal works by philosophers (Wilhelm Dilthey on understanding in the humanities versus explanation in the sciences; Hans-Georg Gadamer and Paul Ricoeur on…

Why Political Theory Needs History: Dismantling the Liberal-Republican Distinction to Understand the Promise of American Democracy Although political scientists continue to distinguish a so-called Anglo-American liberal tradition from a so-called republican tradition, the distinction makes no sense in the context of American intellectual history. Kloppenberg will first discuss misunderstood figures such as John Adams, James Madison, and James Wilson to show the centrality of democracy for the most important political thinkers of the founding period, then fast forward to John Rawls, often consi...