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- Proposes a distinctive theory of the relationship between psychology and the social sciences
- Explores the interface between experience and social (dis)order
- Presents breaks and ruptures in the “social” as liminal occasions in our experience
Part of the book series: Studies in the Psychosocial (STIP)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book breathes new life into the study of liminal experiences of transition and transformation, or ‘becoming’. It brings fresh insight into affect and emotion, dream and imagination, and fabulation and symbolism by tracing their relation to experiences of liminality. The author proposes a distinctive theory of the relationship between psychology and the social sciences with much to share with the arts. Its premise is that psychosocial existence is not made of ‘stuff’ like building blocks, but of happenings and events in which the many elements that compose our lives are temporarily drawn together. The social is not a thing but a flow of processes, and our personal subjectivity is part of that flow, ‘selves’ being tightly interwoven with ‘others’. But there are breaks and ruptures in the flow, and during these liminal occasions our experience unravels and is rewoven. This book puts such moments at the core of the psychosocial research agenda. Of transdisciplinary scope, itwill appeal beyond psychosocial studies and social psychology to all scholars interested in the interface between experience and social (dis)order.
Reviews
“This is an ambitious and challenging text that provokes thought and forces the reader to confront their preconceptions of how we can make sense of the social world.” (Mark Erickson, Sociology, January 08, 2019)
“Liminality and Experience develops an approach to thinking that can illuminate the future of psychosocial approaches on producing effects of in/stability. A central concern of Liminality and Experience is the recognition the self is formed and sustained in a wider context of social forces and structures, though is not reducible to that context.” (Robbie Duschinsky and Samantha Reisz, Theory, Culture & Society, theoryculturesociety.org, May 31, 2018) “A compelling justification of the merits of a ‘process’ version of psychosocial transdisciplinarity.” (Wendy Hollway, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, Open University, UK)
Authors and Affiliations
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School of Psychology, The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
Paul Stenner
About the author
Paul Stenner is Professor of Social Psychology at the Open University, UK. He is author of over 100 articles and several books including, with S.D. Brown, Psychology Without Foundations, and, with Monica Greco, The Emotions: A Social Science Reader. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and President of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology (until 2019).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Liminality and Experience
Book Subtitle: A Transdisciplinary Approach to the Psychosocial
Authors: Paul Stenner
Series Title: Studies in the Psychosocial
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-27211-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-27210-2Published: 22 February 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-96040-8Published: 17 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-27211-9Published: 14 February 2018
Series ISSN: 2662-2629
Series E-ISSN: 2662-2637
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 297
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Personality and Social Psychology, Psychosocial Studies, Emotion, Self and Identity, Ontology