Malagodi E F, Jackson K
Behav Anal. 1989 Spring;12(1):17-33. doi: 10.1007/BF03392474.
(1) to expand our world-view perspectives beyond the boundaries commonly accepted by psychologists in general; (2) to build a cultural analytic framework upon the foundations we have developed for the study of individuals; and (3) to study the works of those social scientists whose views are generally compatible with, and complementary to, our own. Sociologist C. Wright Mills' distinction between troubles and issues and anthropologist Marvin Harris's principles of cultural materialism are related to topics raised by these three strategies. The pervasiveness of the "psychocentric" world view within psychology and the social sciences, and throughout our culture at large, is discussed from the points of view of Skinner, Mills, and Harris. It is suggested that a thorough commitment to radical behaviorism, and continuation of interaction between radical behaviorism and cultural materialism, are necessary for maintaining and extending an issues orientation within the discipline of behavior analysis and for guarding against dilutions and subversions of that orientation by "deviation-dampening" contingencies that exist in our profession and in our culture at large.
对于那些希望将我们学科的兴趣扩展到传统上属于社会科学领域的行为分析师，本文提出了三点策略性建议：（1）将我们的世界观视角扩展到一般心理学家普遍接受的边界之外；（2）在我们为研究个体而建立的基础上构建一个文化分析框架；（3）研究那些观点与我们自己的观点通常兼容且互补的社会科学家的著作。社会学家C. 赖特·米尔斯对麻烦和问题的区分，以及人类学家马文·哈里斯的文化唯物主义原则，与这三点策略所引发的话题相关。本文从斯金纳、米尔斯和哈里斯的视角，探讨了心理学和社会科学领域以及整个文化中“心理中心”世界观的普遍性。本文认为，彻底秉持激进行为主义，并使激进行为主义与文化唯物主义持续互动，对于在行为分析学科内保持和扩展问题导向，以及防范我们行业和整个文化中存在的“偏差抑制”意外情况对该导向的稀释和颠覆而言是必要的。
