The Study Of Frankfurt School's Social Psychological Theory

Theory is the reflection and response to the problems of times.With the worldwide development in economy,politics,culture,science and technology since the 20th century,people's social life has undergone dramatic changes,and their subjectivities have been further promoted.Meanwhile,social psychological problems like loneliness,anxiety,indifference and sense of isolation have thereupon become prominent.Frankfurt School's social psychological theory is the concentrated reflection of the problems and the theoretical essence in attempts to solve the worldwide problems.As an influential school of Western Marxism,Frankfurt School's social critical theory once rose to fame and is under persistent and profound academic research at home and abroad.However,the social psychological theory,which is closely related to the Frankfurt School's social critical theory,has not yet been studied systematically and combed comprehensively.Nevertheless,only by clarifying Frankfurt School's social psychological theory can we have an overall view of Frankfurt School and profound understanding of its social critical theory,thus work out the ways and paths to solve the social psychological problems existing worldwide at present through social psychological theory.As an outstanding one among various schools of Western Marxism to study social psychological problems,Frankfurt School's social psychological theory grew up in the soil of practice and theory in the 20th century's western society.The reflection of two World Wars' devoid of humanity and human's value devaluation accompanying the new social crisis constitutes the historical horizon of Frankfurt School's concerns of social psychological problems.Western Social Psychology,Analytic Psychology,Marx Humanitarian Theory lay theoretical basis for Frankfurt School to study social psychological problems.Western Psychology,Sociology,earlier Western Marxism and Existentialism Marxism are the origin of Frankfurt School's social psychological theory.The "joint force" of practice and theory lead to the birth of social psychological theory with its unique characteristics.Frankfurt School's social psychological theory is rich in its content.While taking social psychological theory as the basis to explain people's existence and fortune,Frankfurt School reveals the inner reasons for social psychological problems on such levels as existence,need,feeling and desire.While examining social psychological theory in the interaction between human beings and environment,Frankfurt School reveals the link mechanism between human being's psychological factors and social realities.While making a detailed analysis and deep reveal of social psychological theory,Frankfurt School shows the rich connotation of social psychological theory.While extending social psychological theory to current social life and world,Frankfurt School broadens the horizon of its concerns,advances the depth of its theoretical exploration,and shows three generations Frankfurt School thinkers' inner logics to study social psychological theory.Frankfurt School's social psychological theory has its values as well as limitations.It provides new perspectives for people to examine and view social phenomenon on the practical level by extending its social psychological analysis from micro level to the fields of culture,language,social interaction and social recognition,and from revealing the control of cultural industry and mass consumption society to the public to criticizing the ideology of new social control form.Compared with little concern from Marx,Frankfurt School's social psychological theory has now been under attention on theoretical level.The transfer of social ideological theory from Marx's economical and political criticism to cultural and social criticism,to some degree,makes up the inadequacy of traditional historical materialism to study social psychological problems,and deepens the exploration of social ideology theory form historical materialism.However,As Frankfurt School focuses too many social psychological problems in natural,mental and ideological fields and lacks corresponding analysis in economic field,its social psychological theory is inadequate in that it both lacks the corresponding dialectical analysis and is limited in humanism at the same time.