The Sage Handbook of Social Psychology
The Sage Handbook of Social Psychology
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10.1108/09504120410520863
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2004-03
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M. Guha
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M. Guha
柏拉图认为，人类之所以组织起来，是因为他们作为个体无法实现所有的目标。另一方面，亚里士多德则认为，无论是否存在对社会契约的功利需要，人们都是出于对社会性的本能倾向而聚集在一起的。现代科学思想倾向于支持亚里士多德而不是柏拉图。人类似乎是社会性动物，就像他们的近亲黑猩猩一样，而不是孤独的动物，只在必要时才合作，就像他们的远亲猩猩一样。因此，社会心理学应该是最重要的人文科学心理学是有限的，因为它只研究人类作为一个个体，和最近的科学发现，在大脑成像和遗传学正在提请心理学进一步远离社会科学成为生物学的一个子集。政治学、经济学等学科之所以受到限制，是因为它们没有适当考虑行为因素。社会心理经济学这门学科应该能够提出比传统数学经济学更好的真实的世界模型。另一方面，我们必须承认，大量的社会心理学研究结果不过是一堆无聊的陈词滥调。标准是《社会心理学手册》，最初由加德纳·林泽编辑，共四卷，现在在其最新版本中压缩为两卷（吉尔伯特等，1998年）。在此之前最近的是布莱克威尔社会心理学手册，分为四卷（Hewstone和Brewer，2001）。塞奇大概认为，这个市场足够大，可以承受另一个市场。我不完全相信他们是对的。这本书与吉尔伯特等人的研究方法并没有根本的不同。所有这些书的撰稿人名单都有相当大的重叠，而且这本书的总体结构与吉尔伯特等人的大致相同。另一方面，这本书更新了五年，比120英镑便宜得多，而且更加紧凑。一个不寻常的现象-一本手册，实际上可以拿在手里。
Plato suggested that humans organize themselves because they cannot achieve all their goals as individuals. Aristotle, on the other hand, argued that people came together from instinctual tendencies towards sociability, whether there was any utilitarian need for a social contract or not. Modern scientific thought tends towards supporting Aristotle rather than Plato. Humans appear to be social animals like their near relations the chimpanzees, rather than solitary animals that collaborate only through necessity like their more distant relations the orang‐utans. Social psychology ought therefore to be the most important of the human sciences–psychology is limited because it only studies the human as an individual, and recent scientific discoveries in brain imaging and genetics are drawing psychology further away from the social sciences into being a subset of biology. Political science, economics, etc. are limited because they do not take behavioural factors properly into account. An academic discipline of socio‐psychological economics ought to be able to come up with a much better model of the real world than conventional mathematical economics. On the other hand, it has to be admitted that an awful lot of social psychology research comes up with nothing much more than a collection of boring platitudes.There are quite a number of handbooks of social psychology. The standard is the Handbook of Social Psychology, originally in four volumes edited by Gardner Lindzey, now in its latest edition compressed to two (Gilbert et al., 1998). The most recent before this one is the Blackwell Handbook of Social Psychology, in four separate volumes (Hewstone and Brewer, 2001). Sage presumably thinks that the market is big enough to stand another. I am not entirely convinced that they are right. This volume does not represent a radically different approach to the subject from that of Gilbert et al. There is a considerable overlap in the lists of names of the contributors to all of these books, and the general structure of this is much the same as Gilbert et al. On the other hand, this one is five years more up‐to‐date, is substantially cheaper at£ 75 rather than£ 120, and is considerably more compact. An unusual phenomenon–a handbook that can practically be held in the hand.