As the first introductory statement of the 'new psychology',
Motives and Mechanisms, originally published in 1985, aims to bring
the study of human action to the forefront of the subject. Like any
science, the practice of psychology is very much influenced by the
hidden assumptions of its practitioners. The argument put forward
in this important text shows how these assumptions can be brought
out by comparing psychology with the natural sciences and with
common-sense understanding. In pursuing the integration of
traditional research methods with a new style of investigation, the
basic principle is that social structures and mental structures are
in reciprocal relation with one another because each is involved in
the creation of the other. By adopting this principle social
structures become the basis for research into the cognitive and
emotional organization of mind. The authors devote two key chapters
to the central question that underlies this stance: are human
actions and human actors' products of internal processes, such as
those described by Freud, or of external social forces, of the kind
described by Mead?
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