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Genetic Social Psychology: From Microgenesis to Ontogenesis, Sociogenesis… and Back

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As recently argued by Valsiner (2013, p. ix), psychology is in deep crisis because of its success in amassing large quantities of empirical evidence but rarely addressing the question “What for?”Valsiner refers to the life work of the late Gerard Duveen as “a good illustration of what kind of scholarship could bring psychology out of its crisis of limited generalization value”, even going so far as to state that genetic social psychology, is “the idea that will live”(Valsiner, 2013, p. ix). Moscovici (2010) states that the work of Duveen inspired some of his writings (see Moscovici, 1990), and that Duveen “had been able to raise fundamental epistemo-logical questions and to propose some elements of answer on which we must reflect further”(p.2.4).

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  1. University of Cyprus, Cyprus

    Charis Psaltis (Assistant Professor of Social and Developmental Psychology) (Assistant Professor of Social and Developmental Psychology)

  2. London School of Economics, UK

    Alex Gillespie (Associate Professor of Social Psychology) (Associate Professor of Social Psychology)

  3. University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland

    Anne-Nelly Perret-Clermont (Professor Emeritus) (Professor Emeritus)

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Psaltis, C. (2015). Genetic Social Psychology: From Microgenesis to Ontogenesis, Sociogenesis… and Back. In: Psaltis, C., Gillespie, A., Perret-Clermont, AN. (eds) Social Relations in Human and Societal Development. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137400994_5

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