scholarly journals An Integrated Theory of Thinking and Speaking that Draws on Vygotsky and Bakhtin/Vološinov

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolff-Michael Roth
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Theory ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Theoretical Terms ◽  
Common Features ◽  
European Languages ◽  
Integrated Theory ◽  
Nested Relations ◽  
Theory Of Language ◽  
Social Psychological Theory

Vygotsky’s social-psychological theory of human development and Bakhtin/Vološinov’s theory of language and the dialogical nature of thought have received increasing interest in the educational research literature but tend to remain unrelated even where co-citation occurs. In this article, I first present a model that integrates the fundamentally common features in the two approaches and present a table with the correspondences of the theoretical terms across four European languages; the model thereby integrates the psychological and sociological dimensions at the heart of the two approaches. I then articulate and elaborate on six main issues that are relevant to and have implications for research: (a) sensual life as integrative unit, (b) self-movement and development, (c) the nested relations between activity and living utterance, (d) signification, (e) vernacular as the origin and locus of development, and (f) unit analysis.

Social Psychological Theory: View From Germany

1981 ◽  
Vol 26 (8) ◽  
pp. 611-612
Author(s):  
Stephen G. West ◽  
Anne Maass
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Theory ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Social Psychological Theory ◽  
Theory View

scholarly journals So Useful as a Good Theory? The Practicality Crisis in (Social) Psychological Theory

2021 ◽  
pp. 174569162096965
Author(s):  
Elliot T. Berkman ◽  
Sylas M. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Social Issues ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
National Level ◽  
Laboratory Data ◽  
Psychological Theory ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Psychological Theories ◽  
Health Domains ◽  
Societal Problems ◽  
Social Psychological Theory

Practicality was a valued attribute of academic psychological theory during its initial decades, but usefulness has since faded in importance to the field. Theories are now evaluated mainly on their ability to account for decontextualized laboratory data and not their ability to help solve societal problems. With laudable exceptions in the clinical, intergroup, and health domains, most psychological theories have little relevance to people’s everyday lives, poor accessibility to policymakers, or even applicability to the work of other academics who are better positioned to translate the theories to the practical realm. We refer to the lack of relevance, accessibility, and applicability of psychological theory to the rest of society as the practicality crisis. The practicality crisis harms the field in its ability to attract the next generation of scholars and maintain viability at the national level. We describe practical theory and illustrate its use in the field of self-regulation. Psychological theory is historically and scientifically well positioned to become useful should scholars in the field decide to value practicality. We offer a set of incentives to encourage the return of social psychology to the Lewinian vision of a useful science that speaks to pressing social issues.

Tinder: A Game with Gendered Rules and Consequences

2021 ◽  
pp. 232949652110194
Author(s):  
Dana Berkowitz ◽  
Justine Tinkler ◽  
Alana Peck ◽  
Lynnette Coto
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Impression Management ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Psychological Theory ◽  
Sexual Scripts ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
College Age ◽  
Patterns Of Interaction ◽  
Social Psychological Theory

The popularity of Mobile Dating Applications has increased in recent years, with Tinder transforming the dating landscape for college students. Drawing upon 249 peer-facilitated interviews with college-age men and women, we explore how this population uses Tinder. Informed by social-psychological theory and research on impression management and stereotyping, we show how Tinder’s marketing strategy and game-like platform appeal to college students’ desires to reduce uncertainty and risk in forming romantic and intimate connections. However, by upending existing interaction norms, the Tinder environment creates new forms of ambiguity, which, in turn, incentivizes conformity to traditional heterogender norms and encourages racist and classist swiping behavior. Our study advances the literature on inequality and intimate marketplaces by generating insight about how contemporary dating and sexual scripts are constructed, accomplished, and negotiated when new technologies disrupt established patterns of interaction.

Living Apart, Living Together? The Role of Intergroup Contact in Social Integration

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
MILES HEWSTONE
Keyword(s):  
Social Integration ◽  
Intergroup Contact ◽  
Psychological Theory ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
British Psychological Society ◽  
Living Together ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Social Psychological Theory

This lecture presents the text of the speech about the role of intergroup contact in social integration delivered by the author at the 2006 Joint British Academy/British Psychological Society Lecture held at the British Academy. It explores the different perspectives on mixing and considers what can be learned from available data. The lecture discusses different types of intergroup contact and explains the policy implications of intergroup contact based on social-psychological theory.

The Dean of Information

2011 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Hansel Burley
Keyword(s):  
Theory Of Planned Behavior ◽  
Planned Behavior ◽  
Effective Leadership ◽  
Psychological Theory ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Facilitative Leadership ◽  
Institutional Researcher ◽  
Data Custodian ◽  
Institutional Leader ◽  
Social Psychological Theory

The author focuses on the institutional researcher as an institutional leader, over and above providing traditional reporting and support. IR practitioners hold authority over the institution’s data. Leadership and social psychological theory can explain their effectiveness. The author combines effective leadership theory with the Theory of Planned Behavior to produce framework for IR leadership. This framework should help the IR professional be more than a data custodian. It should help the IR professional adopt both a transformative and facilitative leadership stance as needed, in order to help the institution reach its goals.

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