Studies of Life Positioning: A New Sociocultural Approach to Psychobiography

Author:   Jack Martin
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:  

9781032608853


Pages:   160
Publication Date:   21 June 2024
Format:   Hardback
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Studies of Life Positioning: A New Sociocultural Approach to Psychobiography


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This book illustrates how Life Positioning Analysis can be used as a theoretical and methodological approach to sociocultural psychobiography. Life positioning psychobiography studies lives as they unfold within a world of interactivity. It recognizes and portrays us as social beings embedded and developing within our life relationships and circumstances and striving to make something of our lives. Here, Jack Martin presents both single-subject and dual-subject studies of social psychologist Stanley Milgram, former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, existential humanist Ernest Becker, American heiress and child advocate Dorothy Burlingham and her life partner, renowned psychoanalyst Anna Freud, and indigenous athlete Jim Thorpe and his college coach Glenn “Pop” Warner. These case studies provide vividly memorable demonstrations of how we are positioned by circumstances and others, and come to position ourselves as socioculturally constituted, psychological persons. In so doing, they offer a systematic framework for studying the lives of people that shows sociocultural and social psychological development without resorting to mentalistic theories, concepts, and interpretations. The book will be of interest to students and scholars in areas related to sociocultural and developmental psychology, the psychology and sociology of personhood, theoretical psychology, qualitative methodology, and social science and life writing more generally.

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Author:   Jack Martin
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781032608853


ISBN 10:   1032608854
Pages:   160
Publication Date:   21 June 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: A Psychobiography of Life Positioning. Chapter 2: Stanley Milgram’s Penchant for Revealing and Concealing. Chapter 3: Pierre Elliott Trudeau and the 1970 October Crisis in the Canadian Province of Quebec. Chapter 4: Ernest Becker’s Quest for a Philosophical Anthropology by way of Human Evil. Chapter 5: The Symmetrical Relationship and Conjoint Agency of Dorothy Burlingham and Anna Freud. Chapter 6: The Asymmetrical, Manipulative Relationship Between Jim Thorpe and Pop Warner. Chapter 7: Revisitings, Reflections, and Critical Considerations.

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Jack Martin is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Simon Fraser University, Canada. He is a recipient of the Society of Theoretical and Philosophical Society’s Award for Distinguished Lifetime Contributions. The focus of Jack’s current work is on personhood and the study of lives, using positioning theories such as Position Exchange Theory and Life Positioning Analysis.

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