The intellectual depth of this book surpasses the rigid disciplinary borders in our contemporary academic world. Mangone goes beyond these superimposed limitations and navigates with expertise the waters of other disciplines, first and foremost the always turbulent psychological ocean. Indeed, this book is an interdisciplinary dialogue that follows other examples of the same kind in our SpringerBrief series (Rayner, 2017). Both biology and sociology are constructive interlocutors for psychology in its efforts to break out of the behaviourist and cognitivist straightjacket of the 20th century and to establish its own domain of expertise. Sorokin’s ideas—informed by his long life experiences in Russia and North America—make his intellectual efforts worthy of a careful analysis in our time. Mangone makes an important contribution to a new look at Sorokin’s ideas. She carefully documents how Sorokin went about creating sociological principles for understanding the changes of sociocultural systems. Since the declared aims of our SpringerBrief Series is to look at the developmental processes from different theoretical angles, Sorokin’s unceasing quest for explaining the basic dimension of the socio-cultural dynamics kept our “intellectual sympathy” and thanks to Mangone’s accurate work, we also found numerous points of convergence with Cultural Psychology and Sociology. According to Sorokin:
Marsico G., Valsiner J. (2018). Interdisciplinarity in the Social Sciences under Observation: Dissecting the thought of Pitirim Sorokin. In E., Mangone, Social and Cultural Dynamics. Revisiting the Work of Pitirim A. Sorokin, (pp. vii-ix), New York: Springer;
MARSICO, Giuseppina
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Abstract
The intellectual depth of this book surpasses the rigid disciplinary borders in our contemporary academic world. Mangone goes beyond these superimposed limitations and navigates with expertise the waters of other disciplines, first and foremost the always turbulent psychological ocean. Indeed, this book is an interdisciplinary dialogue that follows other examples of the same kind in our SpringerBrief series (Rayner, 2017). Both biology and sociology are constructive interlocutors for psychology in its efforts to break out of the behaviourist and cognitivist straightjacket of the 20th century and to establish its own domain of expertise. Sorokin’s ideas—informed by his long life experiences in Russia and North America—make his intellectual efforts worthy of a careful analysis in our time. Mangone makes an important contribution to a new look at Sorokin’s ideas. She carefully documents how Sorokin went about creating sociological principles for understanding the changes of sociocultural systems. Since the declared aims of our SpringerBrief Series is to look at the developmental processes from different theoretical angles, Sorokin’s unceasing quest for explaining the basic dimension of the socio-cultural dynamics kept our “intellectual sympathy” and thanks to Mangone’s accurate work, we also found numerous points of convergence with Cultural Psychology and Sociology. According to Sorokin:I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
