De la « psychologie collective » à la « sociologie pure »
Has the understanding of the early scientific theories of emotions that emerged at the end of the nineteenth century (particularly those of William James and Carl Lange) influenced the explanation of emotional unification within a social group? The paper examines the case of Robert Ezra Park, a form...
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| Achoimre: | Has the understanding of the early scientific theories of emotions that emerged at the end of the nineteenth century (particularly those of William James and Carl Lange) influenced the explanation of emotional unification within a social group? The paper examines the case of Robert Ezra Park, a former student of James, who dedicated his thesis (“The Crowd and the Public”) to so-called “collective psychology.” Park’s concern was to substitute sociology for psychology. In that attempt, he was inspired by Georg Simmel’s definition of sociology. This dual influence (pragmatist and neo-Kantian) enabled him to move beyond the clichés underlying crowd psychology, and to approach collective emotions from a sociological point of view, different from that of Durkheim. |
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