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Invention of Society

Invention of Society

Moscovici, Serge

Paperback

Series: Psychological Explanations for Social Phenomena

General PsychologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0745618391
ISBN13: 9780745618395
Publisher: Polity Pr
Published: Jan 15 1991
Pages: 416
Weight: 1.30
Height: 0.91 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.96
Language: English
This brilliant and original book sets out to dismantle the idea that movements, crises and other phenomena produced in society must be explained by exclusively social causes, without recourse to psychological explanations.

The author argues that we should reassess the significance of psychological causes in human affairs. Whilst psychological causes are undoubtedly distinct from social causes, all social phenomena are events or facts brought about by human beings: it is their passions which stimulate their great political, religious and cultural creations. He discusses the work of Durkehim, Mauss, Weber and Simmel, and argues that only a productive interplay between psychology and sociology will do justice to the interdisciplinary character of their thought.

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