Subjectivity and Knowledge: Generalization in the Psychological Study of Everyday Life

Based on a collection of chapters of leading scholars in the field, the purpose of this book is to intervene in current debates on the scientific foundation of psychological theory, methodology and research practice, and to offer an in-depth, situated and contextual understanding of psychological generalization. This book aims to contribute to a theoretical and methodological vocabulary which includes the subjective dimension of human life in psychological inquiry, and roots processes of generalization in persons’ common, social, cultural and material practices of everyday living. The volume is directed to students, professors, and researchers in psychology as well as to scholars in other branches of the humanities and social science where psychology and especially subjectivity, everyday practice and the development of psychological knowledge is an issue. The volume will be of particular interest to scholars in the field of cultural psychology, critical psychology, psychology of everyday life as well as psychological methodology and qualitative studies of everyday life including the various critical undergraduate, graduate, master, and PhD programs. The book will also be of special interest for scholars working in social psychology, history of psychology, general psychology, theoretical psychology, environmental psychology and political psychology. .

Section I. Generalization and the Practice of Everyday Living -- Chapter 1. Knowledge and generalization in and through social practice -- Chapter 2. Subjectivity, conflictuality and generalization in social practice -- Chapter 3. Phenomena driven generalizations in psychology -- Chapter 4. Developing a dialectical understanding of generalization: An unfinished dialogue between Vygotsky and Davydov -- Section II. Ethical and Aesthetical Compositions of Psychological Generalization -- Chapter 5. The Worldliness of the general: Beyond generalization -- Chapter 6. Collaborative teleogenetic generalization as intergenerational methodology for co-exploring well-being practices from within institutionalized everyday life -- Chapter 7. Caravaggio’s “The seven works of mercy” and the art of generalization -- Chapter 8. Engaging mimetically with the everyday lives of the precariat: Towards an impressionistic social psychology -- Chapter 9. What do we see in the streets? The everyday life of the excluded -- Section III. Transformative Lines of Situated Generalization -- Chapter 10. Ethos and politics of generalization -- Chapter 11. Generalizations in situated nexuses -- Chapter 12. Analytical strategies of situated alter generalization in psychology of everyday life -- Chapter 13. Research as practice: Generalization with prototypes -- Chapter 14. Rhythms of problematisation and immersive navigation: Generalization in psychosocial research. .