Rebels within the ranks : psychologists' critique of scientific authority and democratic realities in New Deal America
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.
Print Book, English, 2002
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2002
XI, 260 p. ; 24 cm.
9780521524940, 9780521583589, 0521524946, 0521583586
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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.
Publicado originalmente en 1997