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A new outline of social psychology.Social organization.

A new outline of social psychology.: Social organization. Not only is social organization a phenomenon amenable and worthy of scientific study in its own right; it is an essential component of the social environment with which social psychology must be concerned. The chapter begins by marshalling the support of the preeminent source of the idea of social organization, Emile Durkheim, recalling his justification for carving out a science of sociology. Then I contrast the sociological and social psychological uses of the idea of social organization with a comparison of the disciplines' markedly different psychological givens. Next, the nature of social organization is described in a way that hews closely to the sociological assumption of individual conformity but is nevertheless useful to social psychology; the emphasis here is on how objective roles and their organization differ along dimensions that affect their influence on persons. The discussion shifts its base at this point toward the social psychological assumption of individual differences by contrasting formal and informal social organization and invoking the idea of personal role definition. Finally, the importance of this level of analysis to social psychology is underscored with examples of its ubiquity in social psychological research. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

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Publisher
American Psychological Association
Copyright
Copyright © 1997 American Psychological Association
Pages
69 –90
DOI
10.1037/10225-004
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Not only is social organization a phenomenon amenable and worthy of scientific study in its own right; it is an essential component of the social environment with which social psychology must be concerned. The chapter begins by marshalling the support of the preeminent source of the idea of social organization, Emile Durkheim, recalling his justification for carving out a science of sociology. Then I contrast the sociological and social psychological uses of the idea of social organization with a comparison of the disciplines' markedly different psychological givens. Next, the nature of social organization is described in a way that hews closely to the sociological assumption of individual conformity but is nevertheless useful to social psychology; the emphasis here is on how objective roles and their organization differ along dimensions that affect their influence on persons. The discussion shifts its base at this point toward the social psychological assumption of individual differences by contrasting formal and informal social organization and invoking the idea of personal role definition. Finally, the importance of this level of analysis to social psychology is underscored with examples of its ubiquity in social psychological research. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

Published: Aug 31, 2004

Keywords: social organization; social psychology; sociology; individual conformity; individual differences; personal role definition

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