From the Epistemic to the Social-Psychological Subject: The Missing Role of Social Identities, Asymmetries of Status, and Social Representations Commentary on Sorsana and Trognon

摘要

Sorsana and Trognon [this issue] discussed the various representations of the subject of cognitive development that have been formed over the years since the seminal work of Jean Piaget. The terminology they used to describe this shift is that of the epistemic subject to the psychological subject, and finally, to the psychosocial actor. The aim of their review was to discuss the major conceptual and methodological obstacles to the analysis of the contextual determination of human thinking in psychology.