It is an observation universally acknowledged that the world we live in is becoming increasingly complex. This complexity is accompanied by a stream of behavioural phenomena that are yet to be explained in any significant way. Perhaps the conceptual foundations of modern psychology need to be updated to accomodate such conditions. At the same time, some suggest that a combination with modern appraoches in sociology may offer new insights. What are your views?
We already have people studying issues with inter-disciplinary orientations. Specifically, the combination of psychology and sociology is already there in the subject of Social Psychology and Psycho-social studies. Overtime, people still refine their methodology that eventually may give birth to still newer combinations.
We already have people studying issues with inter-disciplinary orientations. Specifically, the combination of psychology and sociology is already there in the subject of Social Psychology and Psycho-social studies. Overtime, people still refine their methodology that eventually may give birth to still newer combinations.
This inter disciplinary approach is a very good way to solve many problems of modern complex systems. The invisible but definite walls between disciplines must dissolve!
There are already, indeed, researchers coming form both fields and joining in the study of the complexity of human behaviors in the current world. Thus, for instance, on the ne hand there is this journal:
http://thesocialsciences.com/publications/journal
That collects most of the papers form this annual conference:
http://thesocialsciences.com/the-conference
At the local scale, in Latin America various journals can also be mentioned.
One salient feature is that the cross-disciplinary approach tends to break down a certain positivist tradition in each singular discipline - in sociology as well as in psychology - stimulatingly transforming both.
I agree with above statements. Yes combine model/ approach have already developed according to the demand of the world we are living today. Studuies have been documented the benificial effects of the combine approach...
Here I am attaching some of the links about the psychosocial issues and approches...
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:XmHlIINtmbQJ:www.ourmediaourselves.com/archives/42pdf/WTF20.pdf+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=in
http://www.help4adhd.org/treatment/behavioral/WWK7
http://www.thecochranelibrary.com/view/0/browse.html?cat=ccochdevelpsychosocialproblems
Dear Professor,
I started reading on psychology three years ago. The initial objective just merely try to explain why human being response to change of environment .Especially after organisation change due to business downturn or change of technology . I found that , with psychology alone it is not sufficient to explain this complex behavior , I have to put my attention on social psychology theory and social economic theory , to explore why and how people response differently in difference situations . Finally , I have to make use o mixed method to do my research .
Regards
Thank you for a good question. Does anyone know if this kind of research is done on university students and/or faculty members in particular? If you do please send me any literature on this topic.
I am an engineer by education and have been in higher education admin. for a log while, I am interested in the science behind students'and faculty members' behavior.
complex behaviour is always embedded in a wide network of personal and communitarian effects. Moreover what about the conection between behaviour and the influences of electronic communities?
I think that psychology was looking too long to the social behavior of people.
The research of neuroscience can hopefully explain more the mind from the inside.
I also don't see an increase in complexity, the mass media makes it all the way more simple.
For robust theory development, Management Research must be ECLECTIC in approach .
Great question!
I believe that an inter disciplinary science to study our modern "crazy" world should also include a modernized version of the History (not that suggested by Marx); should include a social science devoted to the study of technology (which does not exist yet) and its influence on human societies; should also include the Anthropology and ... what else am I forgetting?
Yes..Dear Dr Alexandre ,
I do agreed with you , there is hardly any article on this issue , I did a proposal paper before back to year 2002 . Those day , I am intend to do learning theory ,and what are the impacts with the change of technology . But , I drop it after I found new interest topic on theory of film .
It should be an interesting topic !
@Alexandre
There is an interesting stream of research that has been developing in recent years. It is called the "sociology of science", also referred to in certain works as the "sociology of technology". The proponents of this school are: Bruno Latour, Michel Callon, John Law, Wanda Orlikowski. Some of the seminal works on this topic are:
The Sociology of Translation by Callon, Latour and Akrich
Science in Action by Latour
Already in psychosomatic and anthropological medicine of the 1930s through 50s case histories combined psychological and sociological explanations of a given disease or an epidemic. Therefore psychology not only should but does combine its efforts with sociology to explain (pathological) behavior. See Pedro Laín Entralgo. "La historia clínica. Historia y teoría del relato patográfico" (1950).
You know far more about history of medicine than I, dear Kamal: what am I saying? Your publications MAKE history of medicine.
I should add to my answer that insofar as psychology is psychiatry (and this involves merely the practical aspect of the discipline), sociology has long played a role. However, in the more theoretical aspects of psychology-- for instance, the latest theory of perception and experiments pertaining thereto-- , sociology is often irrelevant and could even muddy the waters.
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