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Sociology: A Lost Connection in Social Psychology

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For the first half of the 20th century, sociology was one of the closest allies of social psychology. Over the past four decades, however, the connection with sociology has weakened, whereas new connections with neighboring disciplines (e.g., biology, economics, political science) have formed. Along the way, the sociological perspective has been largely lost in mainstream social psychology in the United States. Most social psychologists today are not concerned with collective phenomena and do not investigate social structural factors (e.g., residential mobility, socioeconomic status, dominant religion, political systems). Even when the social structural factors are included in the analysis, psychologists typically treat them as individual difference variables. Sociologist C. Wright Mills famously promoted sociological imagination, or the ability to see distal yet important social forces operating in a larger societal context. By comparing sociological perspectives to psychological perspectives, this article highlights the insights that the sociological perspective and sociological imagination can bring to social psychology.

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1. The conference titled “Social Psychology: A First 100 Years” was held on September 26 and 27, 2008, at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where Edward Ross was a faculty member (http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/socpsych/centennial.php).
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2. The macro—micro distinction is just one of many typologies that could be used to characterize sociology. However, we have found this distinction to be the most useful one for our purposes. We are certainly aware of the many fruitful attempts to link these two perspectives (and thus dissolve the distinction) in social theory (see, e.g., Alexander, Giesen, Munch, & Smelser, 1987; Collins, 2004).
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3. Roy Baumeister’s sociological imagination is not surprising considering that he completed a postdoctoral fellowship in sociology.

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