I think this is much more case for doing postdisciplinary science, than for trying to come up with new new subdisciplines or conquer territory somewhere on the psychology-sociology axis. Or maybe I'm reading too much into your turn of phrase.

In any case, what we're trying to accomplish at the Interacting Minds Centre in Aarhus, Denmark, addresses these issues. Check it out, and come visit some time. We're always interested in meeting new people with the same interests.

http://interactingminds.au.dk/

Thanks for your link. A colleague of mine, a sociologist, recently spent a semester in Denmark and enjoyed it.

I was not able to view anything under the "current projects" link at the IMC website, but saw the overview. This sounds interesting, but what I am proposing is to take insights about human interaction and apply them to social phenomena that emerge on a bigger scale. Just as the understanding of chemical interactions informs the study of whole organisms, I am hoping the study of human characteristics and interactions can inform the study of whole societies, organizations, social movements, and other social entities. Sometimes one must create new categories and label them to make them appear distinct from other categories. Many exciting avenues of research are going on in psychology, including yours. It is the field of sociology that could be enriched by work like yours.

I am not trying to stake out territory.... as someone not supported by an institution, I have no territory at all. But after years in psychology, I have wishes for my previous field of sociology to grow conceptually with the help of new research in psychology. I am not seeking to find a new location on the spectrum so much as adding a psychological dimension to study that is otherwise fully within the realm of sociology. But you're correct to suggest that I should not focus on the labels and the framework and just dive into the specific projects; that's what I'm hoping to find. Thanks for letting me know of your work; I hope to find out more than I seem to be able to access on your site about specific projects. I will look at your profile for more information.

Sociology is a really fascinating field. We are so bound by its influences yet lack conscious awareness. Sociology is by context psychologically derived as it measures the psyche of groups, class, fragmentation, power imbalance etc. So regardless of 'potential titles' it is a very salient and valuable area for psychological debate. Particularly as our global population reaches unsustainable levels.

My two recent books discuss psychological factors that produce social conflict, as well as other psychological factors that can produce compassionate social transformation. This involves examining how the narcissistic ego's need to reinforce its foundational sense of separate self-awareness, exclusively unrelated identity, and superiority produces judgmental negative stereotyping, blaming, and hostility towards other individuals and social groups deemed to be inferior and exclusively unrelated to oneself and to one's social identity group affiliation. The books also discuss how the development of psychologically healthy individual functioning and psychologically healthy personal relationships can be extended as a way of compassionately transforming society as a whole. This involves deeply understanding and thereby resolving psychologically immature and unhealthy fixated patterns that impede the development of the capacity for genuine compassion, empathy, sincerity, and integrity, as the basis of true ethical responsibility in society. My book, "Deepening Your Personal Relationships", has a lengthy Appendix (Appendix K) which presents a highly original vision of what a psychologically healthy society would involve. This includes new approaches to peaceful conflict resolution, based on mutually beneficial productive cooperation and constructive friendly competition, involving win/win paradigms; Martin Buber's I-Thou relationship (genuinely caring interpersonal relationships) extended to the group level; taking responsibility for one's own individual and group shortcomings (insightful self-awareness, experiential authenticity), rather than projecting blame exclusively onto other individuals and groups; encouraging greater compassion and appreciation of the value of soulful "misfits" who do not fit into the excessively vulgar, mechanistic, materialistic, mainstream ethos of society, but who could significantly contribute to the betterment of society if included rather than marginalized; clarifying the distinction between true freedom and responsibility versus authoritarian and recklessly licentious or excessively hedonistic ways of functioning; encouraging the development of caring, participatory "Community Spirit" through public service awards, volunteerism, neighborhood improvement projects, group leisure activities, and locally oriented broadcast media; sustainable environmental responsibility (ecological stewardship) and bringing indoor gardens into public and private buildings (human habitations); bringing greater vitality, beauty, soulfulness, and aesthetic sensitivity into arts, crafts, and manufactured products; assuring fair/equitable use of financial, material, educational, and media resources as an alternative to monopolism, and as a way of producing healthy innovation; openness to creative transformational insights coming from the relational Mystery ground of being; the importance educators and other sectors of society encouraging psychologically healthy "growth choices" rather than psychologically unhealthy "regression choices", as well as other groundbreadking transformational insights.

I have posted sample chapters of my two books on my ResearchGate profile page, Press Releases for the books are also available on request. Bibliographical information for the books follows below:

PRIMARY AUTHOR: DR. MAX HAMMER (WITH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM DR. BARRY J. HAMMER AND DR. ALAN C. BUTLER)

THE TITLES OF OUR NEW BOOKS ARE:

1) “DEEPENING YOUR PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS: DEVELOPING EMOTIONAL INTIMACY AND GOOD COMMUNICATION” (ISBN: 978-1-61897-590-4)

2) “PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALING THROUGH CREATIVE SELF-UNDERSTANDING AND SELF-TRANSFORMATION.” (ISBN: 978-1-62857-075-5)

THESE BOOKS ARE AVAILABLE (IN SOFT COVER PRINT AND VARIOUS ELECTRONIC VERSIONS ) THROUGH AMAZON, BARNES AND NOBLE, AND THE AUTHOR/PUBLISHER WEBSITE, http://sbprabooks.com/MaxHammer

Both books were published in 2014 by Strategic Book Publishing and Rights Agency Company.

I do not know if I have got your point but with my sociological work I am trying to expand the interactional approach between individuals to include interactions within individuals. In Economic Sociology I have found an interesting starting point in Viviana Zelizer's model of relational work while Ulrich Beck studies on individualization added a strategic component to my understanding of  our society. it was really of fundamental importance to "discover" meditation as social practice of inner inquiry that stills is helping me to redefine the self an experience at epistemological and methodological leves. 

Thank you so much for the thoughts and for the references.