A science can rest on psychological data yet serve non-psychological aims
Evidence
Even where we constantly use psychological rules and knowledge, even where the explanation of every single fact is possible only psychologically (as is true in sociology), the sense and intent of our activities do not have to be psychological. They do not have to aim, that is, at an understanding of the law of the psychic process itself (which, to be sure, has its content), but can aim rather at this content and its configurations. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 207
Categorization
- XREF: Supporting claim for the essay’s method: Simmel’s blasé attitude is a psychic state, but the essay treats it as a social form — exactly the move this passage licenses. — connects to: Early affective computing aimed to serve the subject, not others. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 890; A purely data-driven human science has lost the thinking that defines it — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New…, 163
Related
- A purely data-driven human science has lost the thinking that defines it (similarity 0.80)
- Sociology treats psychological processes only as carriers of social forms (similarity 0.80)