The two languages of the two psychologies of the social

Abstract

Apart from other versions of the linguistic turn, it can be said that social psychology began to pay attention to language due to a tedium caused by the series of declarative words without content or meaning that were recited for years by a standard, purely technical social psychology, which allowed attention to be paid only to the sound of the phrases since there was no content to pay attention to, which motivated reflection on language as a mode of reality. This social psychology begins, in effect, as a critique, and starts from the consideration that reality is, strictly speaking, knowledge made up of language. The basic attention to language on the part of social psychology entails or implies certain obligations that have become apparent as it has developed, specifically two. On the one hand, social psychology has to deal with interpersonal and intergroup relationships, because it is in them that language unfolds. On the other hand, a logical rationality is inherent in language, which social psychology itself must accept as a mode of thought: it is precisely linguistic and enlightened rationality. It can be noted that the characterisation of social psychology is almost a definition of democracy, and is thus an unobjectionable social psychology, at least insofar as democracy is unobjectionable.