Harald Mey

Field-theory

A Study of its Application in the Social Sciences

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Produktbeschreibung

This is an important account of the development of the 'field-theory' approach in the social sciences. Harald Mey concentrates on the writers from the 1930s to the present day who have used this approach to the study of the individual and of society, and gives a clear exposition of such 'field-theory' application in its many differing forms. In addition, the author shows how a concept which was initially useful in the physical sciences came to be used first by psychologists, and subsequently by sociologists and others in related disciplines, in their search for answers to the problems presented by the study of society. Mey describes how the use of the 'field-theory' perspective has fared when applied to specific areas of social research - education, personal relationships, group behaviour. He also compares the 'field-theory' approach to the study of societies with the structural/functional approach, and explains why he believes 'field-theory' has a number of advantages over the structural/functional approach, especially when it comes to the dynamic problem of social change.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 159mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 613g
• ISBN-13: 9781138783065
• ISBN-10: 1138783064
• Artikelnr.: 40495310

Autorenporträt

Harald Mey

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1. Presuppositions of Field
Theories in Social Science 1. Certain Observations on Field
Theory in Physics 2. Gestalt Psychology as Field
Theory 3. Basic Assumptions of Lewin's Topological Psychology: Psychological Field
Theory, Part One 4. Basic Assumptions of Lewin's Dynamic Psychology: Psychological Field
Theory, Part Two Part 2. The Path Followed by Field
Theory from Individual Psychology to Social Science 5. Moving from the Unit of Consciousness to the Multi
Personal Field, By Way of 'Psychological Induction' 6. The Social Field as an Interpersonal Space of Conflict and Tension 7. Contributions to the Theory of the 'Role
Field' Part 3. The Field
Theory in Social Science versus the Theories of System and Structures 8. A Criticism of the 'System' of Structural Functionalism and of the Departure From 'Elements' 9. A First Attempt at the Field
Theory of Society as a Whole 10. Thoughts on Structure and Change Part 4. Social Field
Theories Concerned with Fields of Opinion and Interests 11. Fields of Opinion as a Basis for Norm
and Role
Formation 12. Multi
Person Fields, Image
Fields and the Norm
Field of Society 13. Interest
Fields and Fields of Social Conflict Part 5. Further Applications of the Field
Concept, and Field
Theoretical Methods in Social Sciences 14. Field
Ideas as Applied in Cultural Anthropology 15. On the Educational Concept of Field 16. The Theory of Level of Aspiration, and 'Opportunities for Climbing' in the Social Field 17. 'Field
Models' in the Sense of a 'Formal Field
Method', Together with Final Conclusions Concerning the Methodology