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Making psychology relevant

Jonathan Potter

Loughborough University

This article describes some key features of a discursive psychological approach. In particular, discursive psychology is analytically focused on the way psychological phenomena are practical, accountable, situated, embodied and displayed. It describes its particular version of constructionism and its distinctive approach to cognition as points of contrast with a range of other perspectives, including critical discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, ethnomethodology and conversation analysis. Finally, it describes three areas where discursive psychology is involved with social critique: work on categories and prejudice, issues to do with cognitivism and its problems, and work developing a discursive psychology of institutions.

Key Words: categories • cognition • discursive psychology • institutions • social critique

Discourse & Society, Vol. 16, No. 5, 739-747 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/0957926505054944
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