Wetherell2015

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Wetherell2015
BibType ARTICLE
Key Wetherell2015
Author(s) Margaret Wetherell, Jonathan Potter
Title Discourse and Social Psychology, postmodernism, and capitalist collusion: an argument for more complex historiographies of psychology
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Tag(s) Discursive Psychology
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Year 2015
Language English
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Journal Theory & Psychology
Volume 25
Number 3
Pages 388–395
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DOI 10.1177/0959354314552009
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Abstract

Hayter and Hegarty argue that Discourse and Social Psychology (DSP) is a text sustaining late capitalism as surely as Taylorism sustained the Fordist capitalist epoch. In response, we first situate DSP in its intellectual context; second, highlight limitations in Hayter and Hegarty's use of Harvey's work on the history of capitalism; third, note the importance of analysing contexts and effects in genealogical research on psychology; fourth, show how the argument fails to clearly explicate different senses of reflexivity in DSP and; finally, consider the platform DSP built for the study of ideology and the implications for Hayter and Hegarty's own project. All of this highlights a need for psychologists to be more sophisticated in their historiography.

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