The Church, The Factory and The Market : Scenarios for Psychology in A Post Modern Age  

Oleh:

Kvale, Steinar

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Theory and Psychology vol. 13 no. 5 (Okt. 2003), page 579–604.
Topik: consumption; consumption; history; industry; post modern; religion; church; factory; market; scenarios; psychology; age
Fulltext: 579TP135.pdf (160.72KB)

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Shifting styles of doing psychology reflect assumptions from the culture at large. In the first section, three cultural metaphors for the science and profession of psychology are put forth - the church, the factory and the market. The picture they provide of psychology is then contrasted with the common histories of psychology as a succession of ideas. The metaphors are thereafter invoked in a discussion of psychology as a post modern religious, industrial and commercial collage. What counts in a post modern age is less the truth claims of the different psychological approaches than their marketability. Potentialities of a pragmatic and a culturally situated psychology are discussed in relation to challenges to Western psychology today raised by the psychological profession and the globalization of culture.

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