Beschreibung:
This brilliant and original book sets out to dismantle the idea that movements, crises and other phenomena produced in society must be explained by exclusively social causes, without recourse to psychological explanations. Moscovici suggests that, although this idea is still prevalent in the social sciences today, it is in reality an outdated myth.
Acknowledgements. Introduction: The Problem. Part I: Religion and Nature as the Origins of Society. 1. The Machine for the Creation of Gods. 2. Crimes and Punishments. 3. A Science Difficult to Name. Part II: The Power of the Idea. 4. Social a Big Bangsa . 5. The Genius of Capitalism. 6. The Mana and the Numina. . Part III: One of the Greatest Mysteries in the World. . 7. The Science of Forms. 8. Money as Passion and as Representation. 9. The World that has Vanished. Concluding Remarks. Notes. Index.