How the Social Sciences Think about the World's Social by Michael Kuhn

Author:Michael Kuhn [Kuhn, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Sociology, General
ISBN: 9783838268927
Google: _OClDAAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 29888495
Publisher: Ibidem Press
Published: 2016-09-13T03:23:16+00:00

Psychological thinking—the mythologization of the mind

Unlike political science, which develops with its idea of an anarchic human that is hard to be domesticated, a certain understanding for the troubles the political power is ever confronted with while executing its power against the powerless, just like sociological thinking psychological thinking is utterly critical thinking:

"In trying to solve the terrifying problems that face us in the world today, we naturally turn to the things we do best. We play from strength, and our strength is science and technology. To contain a population explosion we look for better methods of birth control. Threatened by a nuclear holocaust, we build bigger deterrent forces and anti-ballistic missile systems. We try to stave of world famine with new foods and better ways of growing them….We can point to remarkable achievements in all these fields….But things grow steadily worse and it is disheartening to find that technology itself is increasingly at fault. …The application of the physical and biological sciences alone will not solve our problems because the solutions lie in another field….In short, we need to make vast changes in human behavior and we cannot make them with the help of nothing more than physics or biology, no matter how hard we try."[97]

Setting aside the fact, that psychological thinking drafts its critique and the challenges that a "we" is facing, may war and poverty be phrased from the view of the "we" of an imperial state power or from the view of mankind on "terrifying problems", psychological thinking without any further concerns subsumes under this "we" the most diverse things to stress in the first place the critical view psychological thinking has on the world's social, though enumerating War and poverty next to building "antiballistic missile systems" can only be enumerated from the perspective of the concerns of an imperial power only from which view all these are "terrifying problems" accumulated as challenges for ruling the world. Needless to say, that also psychological thinkers very well know that the global poverty has something to with the global business and that building "antiballistic missiles" aims at disarming the missiles of the enemy, so that both poverty and building missiles might not be a failure, but the result of very purposeful and very successful "human behavior". Psychological thinking presents those threatening scenarios as failures not to think about these failures, but as failures which should illustrate a lack in thinking about the world and to motivate the need for psychological thinking. Psychological thinking does not want to think neither about war and nor about poverty. Psychological thinking only mentions both and the failed means to solve "our problems", last but not least as the failure of other sciences, to ignore seeking for the reasons for both in both and suggest to no longer reflect on war and poverty, but to shift the debate to what psychological thinking believes helps to understand and to solve any human problem and advocate that this, unlike all the other ways of theorizing,

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