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RESISTANCE TO CHANGE: A SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
Ist Teil von
Social research, 2015-09, Vol.82 (3), p.607-636
Ort / Verlag
New York: John Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2015
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Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
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The phenomenon of resistance to change has been central to the study of social psychology since the very inception of the field. In the late nineteenth century, the American sociologist Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) took sober notice of the inherently conservative aspects of the human mind -- that is, the ways in which human beings are prone to privilege custom and tradition over progress and social change. In his magnum opus, The Theory of the Leisure Class, Veblen (1899) critiqued the culture of waste and "conspicuous consumption" that he associated with the emerging champions of the Industrial Revolution. He was openly pessimistic about where the cultivation of such lifestyles would lead society, but even Veblen could not have anticipated the environmental crises that, according to leading scientific experts, now loom ominously before. Somewhat improbably, Veblen's views about habits of thought and action were shared by the eccentric psychologist William McDougall (1871-1938), who authored one of the first two textbooks under the fledgling banner of Social Psychology.