Has anyone used psychoanalytic methodology for social science research?

04 December 2014 14 10K Report

I'm exploring methodological issues and looking for sources and literature related to psychoanalytic methods used in social science research.

Thank you in advance for any ideas you might have!

Tina Sideris Popular answer

You may find the work of Paul Hogget, Simon Clarke, Wendy Hollway, P. Frosh useful - long tradition of using psychoanalytic methodology for social sciences. Paul Hogget Bristol University has established the Psycho-Social research methodology

Pedro Paulo Pires

You might want to take a look at the French tradition in Social Psychology. It is not psychoanalytic methodology per se, but I'm sure that they have something that you are looking after...

Mary-Helen Castanuela

These may be helpful:

http://srmo.sagepub.com/view/the-sage-encyclopedia-of-social-science-research-methods/n770.xml

http://nbu.bg/webs/clubpsy/Materiali%20za%20kachvane/Library/razlichni%20lekcii%20na%20angliiski/Psychosocial%20Research%20Methods.pdf

http://www.psy.au.dk/fileadmin/Psykologi/Forskning/Kvalitativ_metodeudvikling/NB30/steinar_pta.pdf

Dr. Senthilvel Vasudevan

Hi,

Your question: Psychoanalytic methodology for social science research. Kindly see the following:

The main concepts of psychoanalysis were easily disseminated amongst the first generation of American sociology, in United States. However, the anti-psychologism of the French School of Sociology, centered on social facts, rejected what appeared as mass psychology centered on collectives.

Mainly in an applied form, which often took the shape of a defense and illustration of Freud’s works, psychoanalysis found a certain echo in the margins of the major disciplines by developing hybrid forms such as psycho-history, psychoanalytical anthropology and ethno-psychoanalysis. The contribution of psychoanalysis is essential to understanding the dynamics between individual and society, and therefore to considering schools of thought such as “Culture and Personality”,

Refer: Franz Boas who had attended Freud’s famous lectures at Clark University in 1909, and the intellectual figures of the Frankfurt School who constructed the Marx-Freud couple.

Example: Axel Honneth’s theory of social pathologies.

The theme of subjectivity, which is central in today’s theoretical debates, initially entered the social sciences on a methodological level with the works of Norbert Elias, Georges Devereux and Jeanne Favret Saada, according to whom affects play a role in producing knowledge in the social sciences.

Refer: http://www.cengagebrain.co.nz/content/9781133513650.pdf

Kalina Stamenova

Dear Pedro, Mary-Helen and Senthivel,

Thank you very much for your thoughtful replies.

Kalina

David W. Jones

You might be aware that there is a tradition of 'Psychosocial Studies' in the UK. There is a network of academics who are driven by the belief that sociological understandings of the human world are not separable from the psychological. Psychoanalysis as as an investigative tool has been commonly used. You might be interested in the 'Association of Psychosocial Studies' - http://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/

There are many examples of people using psychoanalytic ideas to inform social research.

best wishes

David

Claudia Wermelinger

You might also want to check Paul-Laurent Assoun's work http://www.crpm.univ-paris-diderot.fr/spip.php?article87

and this particular book: http://www.decitre.fr/livres/freud-et-les-sciences-sociales-9782200353544.html

Kalina Stamenova

Dear David and Claudia,

Thank you very much for the links with resources.

With best wishes,

Kalina

Ali Rahimi

dear kalina

here are the relevant publications :

http://books.google.co.th/books?hl=en&lr=&id=h1eHb0wt8LUC&oi=fnd&pg=PR7&dq=+psychoanalytic+methodology++++social+science+research&ots=Vpj5dhqoLV&sig=wqqoIjh5k1W-MgMebMEzn4rg34o&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=psychoanalytic%20methodology%20%20%20%20social%20science%20research&f=false

http://soc.sagepub.com/content/40/6/1153.short

http://www.ipa.org.uk/IPA_Docs/Open%20Door%202002.pdf

Kalina Stamenova

Dear Rahimi,

Thank you very much for your suggestions.

I'm trying to get a better understanding of the broader field of psychoanalytic methodologies used in social sciences and our knowledge of it. Your suggestions are very helpful.

I'm wondering if you might know of some empirical studies in education which have used psychoanalytic methodologies in the last 10 years.

With best wishes,

Kalina