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Introduction: Reclaiming the Social in Social Psychology

University of Calgary

The articles in this special issue cover a range of critical issues and approaches in social psychology. Two of their common features are: (a) their restatement—in various forms—of the unresolved epistemological problems that continue to inform critical discussions of social psychology; and (b) the rarely debated question of just what makes social psychology social. These two questions are interlocking: the undecided nature of the latter eventually creates an impassable barrier to resolving the former. Focusing on a cross-section of issues derived from the social psychology literature presented in this issue, I introduce the problematic and contested nature of the domain of social psychology.

Key Words: crisis • epistemology • social psychology • social theory

Theory & Psychology, Vol. 16, No. 5, 587-595 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/0959354306067445


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