ABSTRACT
Social behavior has been an elusive theoretical issue for psychology. Theoretical approaches to social behavior have been inspired either by sociological, political, economic, and folk sources (Abelson et al., 1968; Thibaut & Kelley, 1959), or by extensions of cognitive models to account for the interactions between individuals within a group (Bandura, 1977, 1986; Secord & Backman, 1974). Both sources of interpretation have promoted reductionistic explanations, stressing social interactions as mental intersubjective relationships or as the mental mirroring of social institutional ideas and values by individuals’ cognition and action.
