One of the most important varieties of modern sociological psychology is sociology, which, according to the established tradition, often referred to as "humanistic psychology". (Sociology is not identical to personalism - the stream of Western philosophy XIX-XX centuries, Which takes the individual as the primary element of the spiritual life, acting as the primary reality and the highest spiritual values). The emergence of sociology in general can be seen as another attempt to overcome the "atomistic" approaches to solving the problem of a complete man.
Partly under the influence of Dilthey made repeated attempts to gain a theoretical and research based upon current processes and significant relationship of his life. A significant role was played by the ideas of prominent members of the sociology W. Stern, T Allport, Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers and others
One of the founders and leading theoreticians direction at all, and sociology in particular, was a German-American philosopher and psychologist, founder of the Institute of Applied Psychology in Berlin, one of the founders of the Hamburg Psychological Institute, professor at Duke University, USA William Stern (1871 - 1938).
Essential idea of the works of Stern was the thought of having to change the tasks of psychology and a review of its major theoretical and practical orientations.
This reformist approach was to study the transition of psychology from private concerns and the "elements" of the mind to an "analysis" of the whole, in a role which, according to Stern, was to make "personal integrity" that combines and even absorb all the different trends in modern psychology.
Synthesizing this program nor the Stern nor his followers have failed to realize, but a number of ideas sociology was still true in varying degrees, accepted by sociology, psychology and psychiatry.
Fundamentally important to offer Stern was persistently pursued his idea of personal integrity and the illegitimacy of the artificial division of its properties to "psychic" and "physical", outside the implementation of specific goals of scientific research.
In the opinion of Stern's personal integrity presupposes a dialectical relationship between the various elements of its structure, whereby the integrity of this "never is a complete and definite structure once and for all, but it is always ambiguous, and it exists both real and potential." |