Description

Psychoanalytic theory has always shared a fraught, ambivalent relationship with sociology. The essays in this book explore that ambivalence, providing arguments about how and why psychoanalytic approaches can deepen a purely sociological perspective. One of Smelser’s main tenets is that human social behavior always contains both social-structural and social-psychological elements and that psychoanalytic theory can bridge these two dimensions of human social life. Many of the issues Smelser addresses – including interdisciplinarity, the macro-micro link in research, masculinity and violence, and affirmative action – have generated considerable political and scholarly interest. This collection paves the way for further articulation of the relationship between sociology and psychoanalysis at a time when many sociologists are looking for interdisciplinary links in their work.

Author: Smelser, Neil J

Topic: Psychology
Media: Book
ISBN: 520214897
Language: English
Pages: 283