This book illustrates how Life Positioning Analysis can be used as a
theoretical and methodological approach to sociocultural
psychobiography. Life positioning psychobiography studies lives as
they unfold within a world of interactivity. It recognizes and
portrays us as social beings embedded and developing within our life
relationships and circumstances and striving to make something of our
lives. Here, Jack Martin presents both single-subject and dual-subject
studies of social psychologist Stanley Milgram, former Canadian Prime
Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, existential humanist Ernest Becker,
American heiress and child advocate Dorothy Burlingham and her life
partner, renowned psychoanalyst Anna Freud, and indigenous athlete Jim
Thorpe and his college coach Glenn “Pop” Warner. These case
studies provide vividly memorable demonstrations of how we are
positioned by circumstances and others, and come to position ourselves
as socioculturally constituted, psychological persons. In so doing,
they offer a systematic framework for studying the lives of people
that shows sociocultural and social psychological development without
resorting to mentalistic theories, concepts, and interpretations. The
book will be of interest to students and scholars in areas related to
sociocultural and developmental psychology, the psychology and
sociology of personhood, theoretical psychology, qualitative
methodology, and social science and life writing more generally.
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A New Sociocultural Approach to Psychobiography
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781040048115
Publisert
2024
Utgave
1. utgave
Utgiver
Taylor & Francis
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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