Jack Martin & Jeff Sugarman 
Psychology and the Question of Agency [PDF ebook] 

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Disciplinary psychology has failed to achieve a coherent conception of human agency. Instead, it oscillates between two differing conceptions of agency that are equally untenable: a scientistic, reductive approach to choice and action, and an instrumental approach that celebrates a romantic notion of free will. This book examines theoretical, philosophical psychology and argues for a historically and socioculturally situated human capacity for choosing and acting in ways not entirely determined by culture and/or biology. The authors present a detailed developmental theory of how agentic capability emerges from the pre-reflective activity of humans in a real physical and social world. Implications of the theory are considered for psychological research and practice, and for the broader socio-political impact of disciplinary psychology in Western liberal democracies.

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Preface

1. PSYCHOLOGY AND THE QUESTION OF AGENCY

Some Relevant Background for What Follows

Psychology’s Disavowal of Agency


The Basic Error
Method over Substance


Aspirations

2. REDUCTIONISM IN PSYCHOLOGY

A Historical Sketch


Identity versus Requirement
Omissions
Summary and Implications


Research Practices and the Construction of Pseudo-Psychological Kinds


Causal Woes
Variability and Its Statistical Treatment
Manufacturing and Generalizing Psychological Entities


The Role of Professional Psychology


The Example of Self-Concept


Another Kind of Reductionism in Psychology

An Antidote in Brief

3. BETWEEN HARD DETERMINISM AND RADICAL FREEDOM

Definitions and Distinctions

A Critical Consideration of Some Notable Attempts at Soft Determinism


Philosophical Considerations
Psychological Considerations


Bandura’s Social Cognitive Theory
Theory of Mind and Intentional Self-Development
Theoretical Psychology of Agency

Hermeneutics and Agency

4. THE UNDERDETERMINATION AND IRREDUCIBILITYOF AGENCY

An Argument for the Underdetermination of Agency


Structure of the Argument
Against Full Physical-Biological
Determinism
Against Full Sociocultural Determinism
Against Randomness and Unconscious Processes Alone
Agency as the Surviving, Plausible Option


Contemporary Programs of Reductionism and the Irreducibility of Agency


Central State Materialism
Supervenience and Functionalism
Computational Models of Mind
What Is Missing in Reductive Functionalism and Computationalism?


Summary and Links

5. A THEORY OF SITUATED, EMERGENT, AND DELIBERATIVE AGENCY

Levels of Reality


Being-in-the-World
Tiered Reality


An Existential Starting Point and a Brief Conception of Personhood

The Developmental Emergence of Situated, Deliberative Agency and Psychological Kinds

Understanding and Care within Traditions of Living

Summarizing Our Theory of Agency and Psychological Kinds

Implications for Understanding Psychological Phenomena

A Final Word

6. PUTTING AGENCY INTO PSYCHOLOGY

Re-envisioning Psychological Research: Reinforcement Theory and Beyond


Reinforcement Theory Revisited
Beyond Reinforcement Theory


Re-envisioning Psychological Practice


The Nature of Psychotherapy
The Practice of Psychotherapy
The Education of Psychotherapists


The Sociopolitical Consequences of Situated, Emergent, and Deliberative Agency


Liberalism and Communitarianism
The Political Disposition of a Situated, Emergent, and Deliberative Agency


A Concluding Comment

References

Index

Sobre el autor

Jack Martin is the Burnaby Mountain Endowed Professor of Education at Simon Fraser University. He is the coeditor (with Lisa Tsoi Hoshmand) of
Research as Praxis: Lessons From Programmatic Research in Therapeutic Psychology, and the author of several books including (with Jeff Sugarman)
The Psychology of Human Possibility and Constraint, published by SUNY Press.
Jeff Sugarman is Assistant Professor of Education and
Janice Thompson is Associate Dean of Education at Simon Fraser University.

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Idioma Inglés ● Formato PDF ● Páginas 196 ● ISBN 9780791486849 ● Tamaño de archivo 1.2 MB ● Editorial State University of New York Press ● Publicado 2012 ● Descargable 24 meses ● Divisa EUR ● ID 7666841 ● Protección de copia Adobe DRM
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