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Beyond the Meaning Given. The Meaning as Explanandum.
1University of Salento, via Stampacchia 42, 73100, Lecce, Italy. sergio.salvatore65@icloud.com.
Integrative Psychological & Behavioral Science
|February 4, 2019
Summary
This paper introduces an analytical concept of meaning, distinguishing meaning-making from sense-making. It argues for a new psychological framework to study meaning as an emergent phenomenon, moving beyond static definitions.
Area of Science:
- Psychological Science
- Cognitive Psychology
Background:
- Acknowledges Jerome Bruner's foundational contributions to psychological science.
- Highlights the need for a more analytical approach to understanding meaning in psychology.
Purpose of the Study:
- To propose a distinction between meaning-making and sense-making.
- To advocate for a theoretical and methodological shift in the study of psychological meaning.
Main Methods:
- Conceptual analysis of meaning.
- Examination of the limitations of hypostatized views of meaning.
- Exploration of the dynamics of presentification in psychological reality.
Main Results:
- Meaning-making involves the elaboration and use of meaning.
- Sense-making concerns the emergence of meaning as lived psychological reality.
- The study identifies two key issues: the limits of static meaning concepts and the role of presentification.
Conclusions:
- Psychology requires a framework to investigate meaning as an emergent phenomenon.
- Distinguishing meaning-making and sense-making offers a path toward this new framework.
- Meaning should be studied dynamically, not as a given premise.
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