Daniel Sullivan, Alexis N. Goad, Tyler Jimenez, Liam Luckett, Harrison J. Schmitt, Lauren Sedivy
{"title":"The Hierarchy of Self-Positions: Towards a Historical Psychology of Capitalist Individualism","authors":"Daniel Sullivan, Alexis N. Goad, Tyler Jimenez, Liam Luckett, Harrison J. Schmitt, Lauren Sedivy","doi":"10.1111/jtsb.70057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jtsb.70057","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Social psychology requires a theory of capitalist individualism that explains how meritocratic beliefs and a phenomenology of autonomy interact with historic and systemic factors that facilitate hierarchic constraint on most individuals. Here, we present such a theory and apply it to capitalist individualism as it has manifested in the history of the United States. Our hierarchy of self-positions model suggests that groups and individuals in the United States are stratified along an economic dimension of differing apparatuses of value-capture and an interrelated political dimension of differing modes of social control. The ideal self in capitalist individualism is the <i>disciplined self</i>, but many people find themselves failing to achieve this form of selfhood for a variety of reasons and cast into the less desired positions of the <i>precarious self</i> or the <i>incarcerated self</i>. Well-resourced individuals often attain disciplined selfhood: They contribute to value generation with perceived autonomy and yet are subject to temporal disciplinary control. Disadvantaged (e.g., racialised) individuals are disproportionately ascribed precarious or incarcerated selfhood: They contribute to value generation in ways that feel relatively heteronomous and are subject to disciplinary control that is more intense and spatialised.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47646,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour","volume":"56 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2026-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148616126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Will to Interpret: Embodied Moral Reflexivity Under Misrecognition","authors":"Junghun Oh","doi":"10.1111/jtsb.70058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jtsb.70058","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article reinterprets Pierre Bourdieu's theory of practice as a framework for understanding the moral struggles of marginalised actors in everyday contexts. Growing scholarship has emphasised that moral practices encompass not only intentional and deliberative reasoning but also automatic, instant and embodied reactions. Building on this literature, this article demonstrates how morality, as moral habitus and embodied dispositions, can subtly influence the dominant morals and norms throughout individual negotiations with habitus. In particular, it reframes Bourdieu's notion of practical reflection as <i>a will to interpret</i>—a pre-reflective, practically oriented process of moral orientation that arises from embodied dissonance under conditions of misrecognition. Based on this concept, the article identifies two key sites where Bourdieu's theory contributes to moral struggles: (a) the experiential gap produced by hysteresis and (b) the development of new moral languages among marginalised actors. Ultimately, it calls for greater attention to the subtle, slow and often unnoticeable forms of resistance that unfold in everyday life, quietly reshaping moral landscapes from within.</p>","PeriodicalId":47646,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour","volume":"56 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2026-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jtsb.70058","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148616017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prosociality: Against Consequentialism and Towards Relationality","authors":"Maurice Bokanga","doi":"10.1111/jtsb.70051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jtsb.70051","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Prosocial behaviour is a topic of concern within sociology and the social sciences more broadly. Though defined in various ways, the dominant theme of existing definitions of prosociality centres the causal power of an act in producing real or intended benefits for some other agents, at a cost to the agent that performed the act. Under this conceptualisation, many phenomena of sociological importance have been studied, from the micro-level of personal donation choices to the meso-level and macro-levels of social movement organising. Despite the theoretical and practical importance of prosocial behaviour to social life, this conceptualisation does not perform well as a practical guide to understanding prosociality unless it is supplemented by controversial and non-empirical assumptions. This paper proposes an alternative conceptualisation of prosociality that avoids these failures while retaining the successes of the consequentialist approach. This alternative conception builds on pre-existing sociological research on the dynamic boundaries of the self, our embeddedness in structures of social relations and how situations prompt us to act in accordance with our identities. These research traditions point us towards a systematic study of patterns of prosocial relations, and how those patterns interact with other social structures.</p>","PeriodicalId":47646,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour","volume":"56 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2026-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jtsb.70051","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148615658","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pragmatism, Dual-Process Theory, and the Study of Reflective Cognition","authors":"Gordon Brett","doi":"10.1111/jtsb.70053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jtsb.70053","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article advances dual-process theory (DPT) by developing a pragmatist framework for the study of reflective cognition. Although dual-process models were introduced to sociology via Bourdieusian practice theory, Bourdieusian DPT has proven inadequate for theorising reflective cognition and action, with sociologists looking to pragmatism as an alternative. To support these efforts, I provide a synthetic, elemental account of the pragmatist theory of reflection, delineating reflective cognition's defining characteristics, core components, its relationship with non-reflective cognition, and its interindividual variation. I then outline the merits of the pragmatist theory of reflection for dual-process research, arguing that it not only addresses the major limitations of Bourdieusian DPT but that it has broad interdisciplinary support, provides advantages in terms of conceptualisation, operationalisation, and measurement, and opens new lines of inquiry. Overall, I argue that pragmatism provides a robust framework to enhance the study of reflective cognition and is a valuable, if not superior, theoretical alternative for dual-process research.</p>","PeriodicalId":47646,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour","volume":"56 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2026-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jtsb.70053","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148467342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Co-inherence of Natures: An Ontological Extension of Strong Structuration Theory","authors":"Aristeidis Panagiotou","doi":"10.1111/jtsb.70049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jtsb.70049","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The participation of living organisms in social structural dynamics raises a question contemporary social theory has only begun to answer: What ontological vocabulary can specify how the natures of different kinds of beings coinhere within concrete structural situations? This article addresses that question by extending Rob Stones's strong structuration theory (SST) and integrating Ted Benton's critical naturalism with conceptual resources drawn from the Maximian-Palamite tradition, namely the apparatus of nature-as-energy (<i>physis-energeia</i>), hypostasis, <i>hexis</i> and <i>perichōrēsis</i>. Philosophically reconstructed in recent scholarship, these concepts are mobilised not as confessional commitments but as a social ontological grammar, one that resists both the monism of flat ontologies, in which stable natures dissolve into a single process, and the dualism of nature and society that has long structured social thought. So equipped, the theorist-researcher can analyse how ontologically different natures, principally human and animal, co-inhere within structural conjunctures, each actively present through its own energies and dispositions, without either collapsing their differences or merely juxtaposing them. The framework is applied heuristically, through theorist's pattern analysis, to intensive pig farming in the European Union, where antibiotic resistance, welfare-driven regulatory change and zoonotic emergence are analysed as coinherent outcomes in which dominated organisms affect, constrain and sometimes destabilise the structures that dominate them. The contribution is to demonstrate that a philosophical tradition developed to think the unity-in-difference of natures yields resources both rigorous and productive for the analysis of the structured situations in which, increasingly, many of the most pressing questions of social life are now posed.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47646,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour","volume":"56 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2026-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148386616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Institutions for Autonomy: Facilitating Moral Selfhood by Design","authors":"Udo Pesch","doi":"10.1111/jtsb.70052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jtsb.70052","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Modern institutions can be seen as ‘regimes of autonomy’, social contexts in which different criteria for autonomy are maintained. Some of these institutions provide individuals the opportunity to nurture their moral selfhood as they allow persons to learn the capacity for giving legitimate justifications for their decisions. Among these institutions are the court of law, the educational system, the public debate and the academic system. Contemporary technical and institutional developments, such as the implementation of digital systems and the privatisation of public services, challenge the capacity of institutions to nurture their moral selfhood. These developments introduce regimes of autonomy in which the autonomous self appears to often be understood as an empirical given, in the sense that there is no necessity to support decisions by giving reasons.</p>","PeriodicalId":47646,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour","volume":"56 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2026-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jtsb.70052","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148324996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Valérie Haas, Renan Eskinazi, Nazih Titouani Mandri
{"title":"Continuity and Transformation of Collective Memory: A Psychosocial Approach to Historical Narratives","authors":"Valérie Haas, Renan Eskinazi, Nazih Titouani Mandri","doi":"10.1111/jtsb.70050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jtsb.70050","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This article examines the transmission of historical narratives from a psychosocial perspective, highlighting the central role of collective memory in the construction of social reality. Here, memory is conceptualised as a dynamic process, simultaneously structured by stable elements that ensure identity cohesion as well as reshaped by current social and political contexts. Within this dialectic between continuity and transformation, collective memory—in its completeness and its gaps—emerges as a key object of study for understanding the relationship between history, social representations and memory itself. The rise of nationalism and populism in the 21st century relies on the politicisation of memory, which is increasingly used as a tool of legitimation and narrative reconfiguration. The current ‘post-truth’ era amplifies this phenomenon by replacing historical facts with subjective and often emotional interpretations that reshape national narratives. The opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games serves as an illustrative case: while reaffirming a consensual national narrative, it also included new, less consensual figures, such as the French-Malian singer Aya Nakamura, exposing tensions between national identity and diversity. Collective memory thus appears as a crucial field of enquiry for understanding contemporary social transformations, with the contributions of Halbwachs, Bartlett and Moscovici providing a fertile theoretical framework for analysing these dynamics.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47646,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour","volume":"56 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2026-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148324969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Critical Meeting Point Between Psychology and Union Renewal","authors":"Xavier Mínguez Alcaide","doi":"10.1111/jtsb.70048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jtsb.70048","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In recent years, a critical position has been developed regarding the role of work and organisational psychology (WOP) as a scientific tool for corporate interests and as an ideological instrument that contributes to producing the forms of subjectivity necessary to reproduce the capitalist system. In response to this, Critical WOP questions the hegemonic economic and labour model and the subjectivities it produces, while making proposals aimed at emancipation and social transformation. This article presents the main criticisms of hegemonic WOP and the constituent elements of Critical WOP, and based on these, it outlines a proposal for critical psychosocial intervention in the field of trade union renewal, as trade unions have historically been marginalised in studies on WOP. This work aims to offer a small contribution to the development of a fertile and little-explored academic field, namely the convergence between psychology and trade union renewal. The proposal integrates various frameworks of knowledge, such as critical approaches to WOP, psychopolitical validity, participatory action research, political subjectivation and the psychosocial aspects of collective action and peer political support. The text concludes with a series of reflections to advance the construction of a psychology of work oriented towards trade union renewal.</p>","PeriodicalId":47646,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour","volume":"56 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2026-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jtsb.70048","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148325012","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Critical Meeting Point Between Psychology and Union Renewal","authors":"Xavier Mínguez Alcaide","doi":"10.1111/jtsb.70048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jtsb.70048","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In recent years, a critical position has been developed regarding the role of work and organisational psychology (WOP) as a scientific tool for corporate interests and as an ideological instrument that contributes to producing the forms of subjectivity necessary to reproduce the capitalist system. In response to this, Critical WOP questions the hegemonic economic and labour model and the subjectivities it produces, while making proposals aimed at emancipation and social transformation. This article presents the main criticisms of hegemonic WOP and the constituent elements of Critical WOP, and based on these, it outlines a proposal for critical psychosocial intervention in the field of trade union renewal, as trade unions have historically been marginalised in studies on WOP. This work aims to offer a small contribution to the development of a fertile and little-explored academic field, namely the convergence between psychology and trade union renewal. The proposal integrates various frameworks of knowledge, such as critical approaches to WOP, psychopolitical validity, participatory action research, political subjectivation and the psychosocial aspects of collective action and peer political support. The text concludes with a series of reflections to advance the construction of a psychology of work oriented towards trade union renewal.</p>","PeriodicalId":47646,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour","volume":"56 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2026-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jtsb.70048","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148325011","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
David Sanchez, Adrian López Fleming, Isabella R. Wiehls
{"title":"Are Terrorists Model Citizens? An Account of Political Culture Through Ecological Psychology","authors":"David Sanchez, Adrian López Fleming, Isabella R. Wiehls","doi":"10.1111/jtsb.70046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jtsb.70046","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The aim of this paper is to provide a novel as well as radical perspective that helps to elucidate the fundamental function civic values fulfil within society through an embodied model that provides a framework, both theoretical and practical, for the shaping of the subject's political culture and habits. We examine the cognitive basis of the notion of civic values and rational choice theory, arguing that, when confronted with the “terrorist dilemma”, the latter appears as an ill-formed scientific framework. We propose an embodied approach to the concept of political culture through ecological psychology, arguing that it not only offers a better scientific framework for the study of political culture and habits but also that this framework shows the profound limitations of the notion of civic values in the first place. We consider the implications for public policy in regards to the prevention of radicalisation, contrasting the public policy outcomes that derive from orthodox and our proposed model, examining specific cases such as the 2018 Toronto van attack.</p>","PeriodicalId":47646,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour","volume":"56 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2026-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jtsb.70046","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148174234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}