Criza Psihologiei

Goertzen - ON THE POSSIBILITY OF UNIFICATION

„Finally, psychology is successful precisely because it is fragmented—it leads to psychology

possessing a ‘chameleonlike character’—and, therefore, there is no reason to address the
perceived crisis (Stam, 2004; Ward, 2002).”

Sarason (1981), who has pointed out that psychology exists in a larger social context and,
therefore, if the society is experiencing some form or other of fragmentation, there is a good
chance that it will enter or affect psychology by the simple fact that members of psychology are
also members of society.

Despre Teoria Activitatii: Hacker, W - Activity Theory: Psychological co. Smelser, Neil J.,
Baltes, Paul B. ; International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences.
Pergamon, Oxford; 2001; p. 58-62

„Activities are motivated and regulated by higherorder goals and are realized through actions
that are themselves relatively independent components of each activity. Actions differ from each
other with respect to their specific goals. Actions may themselves be decomposed into their
subordinate components, the operations. Operations are described as subordinate because they do
not have goals of their own. Operations can be taken to be movement patterns or, in the case of
mental activities, elementary cognitive operations” – COMPONENTELE ACTIVITĂȚII

Stigler, J.W., Schweder, R.A. and Herdt, G. (eds.) (1990) Cultural Psychology: Essays on
Comparative Human Development. Available at:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cultural-psychology/42812AB97F57543EA0B79881
31741655.

„Psihologia culturală trebuie să de distingă de psihologia generală. Oamenii sunt la fel oriunde-ai
merge, conform unui vers al piesei lui Paul McCartney si Stevie Wonder „Ebony and Ivory”.
Însă cu toții știm că nu e așa și asta încearcă psihologia culturală să prezinte.

Bühler, K. (1926a). Die Krise der Psychologie. Kant-Studien, 31, 455–526.

As Bühl remarked, “one can even read in the newspapers that psychology has entered a crisis.”2
He penned one such newspaper article himself, presenting a short version of his views (Bühler,
1926b).
Thomas Sturm, Bühler and Popper: Kantian therapies for the crisis in psychology, Studies
in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of
Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Volume 43, Issue 2, June 2012, Pages 462-472,
Bühler denies that the psychology of the time suffers from
“decay” (Zerfall). Instead, he says, it shows signs of a “constructive crisis” (Aufbaukrise)
resulting from many differing theoretical and/or methodological approaches that have yet to be
unified: “The number of co-existing psychologies that we have today, the number of
simultaneous approaches based on isolated initiatives, has probably never before existed”
(Bühler, 1927, p. 1)