A defence of an 'immanentist' account of social form and experience

In defence of South African discursive social psychology, this paper provid es a brief account of social form and experience as immanent in discursive practices. Social order and social institutions must be viewed as no more a nd no less than the sedimentation of coordinated human practices, and that any attempt to explain the 'objectivity' of the human made social world by recourse to biological or cultural essences is to entirely misunderstand it s ontology. I argue that this immanentist perspective provides a more adequ ate account of the social psychology of social transformation, and steers c lear of some potential political problems associated with cultural essentia lism.