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Rom Harré ’s focus on morality , attributing humans with powers to act and accounting for their inner mental states, forms a fundamental basis for the epistemological redefinition of social psychology as a human and cultural discipline. Harré suggests possible links between his positioning theory and another two socio-cultural psychologies, namely, Vygotsky ’s socio-cultural approach, and Moscovici ’s theory of social representations. All three approaches presuppose, as an epistemological point of departure, the self and other(s) in their unique relations. Their dynamic uniqueness is realised in and through language and communication, and through multifaceted forms of interaction in the construction of meanings in concrete local situations. These concerns have a strong influence in professional practices such as education, health-related issues and disability, as well as in politics.
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Marková, I. (2019). Ethics in Socio-cultural Psychologies. In: Christensen, B. (eds) The Second Cognitive Revolution. Theory and History in the Human and Social Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26680-6_11
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