Agency: Its Role in Mental Development.(Review)

From: British Journal of Psychology | Date: May 1, 1999| Author: Forrester, Michael A. | Copyright information

By James Russell. Hove: Psychology Press/Taylor & Francis. 1996. Cased, [pounds]29.95. ISBN 0863772285.

In contrast to contemporary theoretical developments in sociology, social anthropology, psychoanalysis and linguistics, psychology has exhibited little interest in what is generally termed post-structuralist or post-modernist thinking. Only within social psychology can one find research paradigms which seriously consider the ideas associated with these movements (e.g. ...

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