Rebels Within the Ranks - Psychologists Critique of Scientific Authority Democratic Realities

Zusammenfassung This book examines the work of social and personality psychologists who in the 1930s criticized the increasingly restrictive vision of scientific life being promoted by neo-behavioralist social scientists in the United States. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The Deep Context of Dissent: Jamesian Philosophy and Social Gospel Theology; 2. Challenging the Rule of the Game; 3. Defying the Law of Averages: Constructing a Science of Individuality; 4. The Pursuit of 'Impure' Science: Constructing a Science of Social Life; 5. Natural History and Psychological Habitats; 6. Exploratory Relativism and Patterns of Possibility; Conclusions; Endnotes.

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• Authors: Pandora Katherine, Katherine Pandora, Katherine (University of Oklahoma) Pandora, Pandora Katherine
• Assisted by: Mitchell G. Ash (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.08.2002
• EAN: 9780521524940
• ISBN: 978-0-521-52494-0
• No. of pages: 276
• Series: Cambridge Studies in the Histo; Cambridge Studies in the History of Psychology
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; USA, SCIENCE / History, PSYCHOLOGY / General, Psychology, History of Science, United States of America, USA, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period)