Discourse in Social Psychology (3) : The character of the current social psychology

In this paper we discuss on the characters of current social psychology by examing their theoretical, conceptual, and epistemological foundation. They have been the position of scientism for long period after Watson's Revolution of Behaviorism. Then, many questions and criticism toward traditonal scientific social psychology were put forward in the periods from 1960 to 1970. Following those criticism, many new powers in social psychology, like cognitivist, humanity psychologist, social constructionist, and ethnomethodologist appeared. Then, social psychology are changing into diverversity or chaotic state. The end of this paper we propose the need of discussion about what social psychology is, and the construction of emic social psychology of Japan