Description
| Product ID: | 9781032749938 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Re-envisioning Psychology |
| Subtitle: | Debating Paradigmatic Foundations |
| Authors: | Author: Parul Bansal |
| Page Count: | 342 |
| Subjects: | Gender studies, gender groups, Gender studies, gender groups, Social work, Behaviourism, Behavioural theory, Social, group or collective psychology, Ethology and animal behaviour, Social work, Behavioural theory (Behaviourism), Social, group or collective psychology, Animal behaviour |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating This book studies the ideological nature of mainstream scientific psychology. It raises critical questions on dominant forms of psychological theorization and praxis based on their validity, social relevance and power privileges. This book studies the ideological nature of mainstream scientific psychology. It raises critical questions about the dominant forms of psychological theorization and praxis, based on their validity, social relevance and power privileges. Re-envisioning Psychology critically interrogates scientific images of the mind, individual, gender, development, society and culture that mainstream psychology promotes. The issues taken up in this book revolve around the pivotal concerns of psychology’s scientific basis, its dominant quantitative research methodology, the construction of ‘individual’ as the unit of analysis, the conceptualization of ‘social’, ‘cultural’ and ‘gender’ in relation to individualism, and the understanding of abnormality as shaped by the discourses of medical science and capitalism. Comprehensive and topical, the book will be useful to students, researchers, and teachers of psychology, applied psychology, social work, gender and women studies, and sociology. It will also be of interest to professional counsellors and psychotherapists. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge India |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2024-04-24 |
