Psychology and Sociology

Stanley Bailis argues that the interrelating of different social sciences can be either useful or counter-productive. His essay, he says

has two main purposes: to indicate how the ad hoc use of different disciplines has led American Studies to the point of incoherency; and to describe an integrative conception of the social sciences which may help to reduce their contribution to this problem (Bailis, N.D., 202).

In other words, two social sciences can be brought together either to confuse or clarify the subject at hand. The problem for those in different realms of social science is to find a way to "amalgamate factors which the disciplines divide" (Bailis, N.D., 202).

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that he will be able to change society in the way he wishes. Also, Weber's individual may be free, but he is nevertheless inevitably a part of society and cannot escape that connection: The individual who is conscious of his own freedom does not stand outside the world of causality, but rather perceives his own volition as a very special category of cause, different from the other causes that he must reckon with (Berger, 1963, 123). A final great differences is that for the psychoanalyst Freud the aim of science is to create a new identity only for the individual, whereas for Weber the focus is on the affect the free individual can have on society, even if the change he brings about is not the one intended. Comparing the ideas of Freud (psychology) and Weber (sociology) produces different images of human adaptive behavior. On the other hand, comparing the ideas of cognitive psychology with the sociological ideas of Durkheim produces complementary images of human adaptive behavior. Both Durkheim's sociology and cognitive psychology begin with the assumption that the world or society in which the individual adapts is an objective one which must be treated as a fact if the individual's adaptation is to have any meaning or pos
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Approximate Word count = 1789
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page)

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