Historical spaces of social psychology

Nikos Kalampalikis (1) , Sylvain Delouvée (2) , Jean-Pierre Pétard (3)

1 GRePS - Groupe de Recherche en Psychologie Sociale
2 CRPCC EA 1285 - Centre de Recherches en Psychologie Cognition et Communication
3 BP - Bulletin de Psychologie

An extensive analysis of all social psychology textbooks published, in french, between 1947 and 2001, including a history chapter, provides a rich corpus for the study of the history of social psychology. In this article we choose to study the historical spaces of social psychology, in order to show how the discipline was located in geographical, urban, institutional and collective spaces. We argue that, into this specific corpus, spaces are essentially related to some solitary and consensual scholars names without any informative reference to their institutions, nor to any trace of collective work. Moreover, we try to highlight several styles, ways and norms of collective writing the history of this discipline.

Mots clés: history; social psychology; textbooks; scholars; institutions

Domaines: Psychologie

Nikos Kalampalikis, Sylvain Delouvée, Jean-Pierre Pétard. Historical spaces of social psychology. History of the Human Sciences, 2006, 19 (2), pp.23-43. ⟨halshs-00495392⟩