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Making psychology relevant
journal contribution
posted on 2012-03-26, 09:26 authored by Jonathan PotterThis paper describes some key features of a discursive psychological approach. In
particular, discursive psychology is analytically focused on the way psychological
phenomena are practical, accountable, situated, embodied and displayed. It describes its
particular version of constructionism and its distinctive approach to cognition as points of
contrast with a range of other perspectives, including critical discourse analysis,
sociolinguistics, ethnomethodology and conversation analysis. Finally, it describes three
areas where discursive psychology is involved with social critique: work on categories and
prejudice; issues to do with cognitivism and its problems; and work developing a discursive
psychology of institutions.
History
School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies
Citation
POTTER, J., 2005. Making psychology relevant. Discourse & Society, 16(5), pp. 739 - 747Publisher
© Sage PublicationsVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publication date
2005ISSN
0957-9265;1460-3624Publisher version
Language
- en