Reflecting the contributions of M. Brewster Smith to social
psychology and personality study, this selection includes not only
his best known essays but also previously unpublished material.
Professor Smith's consistent striving for a psychology both
scientific and humane unifies the collection; it is a valid and
valuable overview of the relevance of social psychology to human
experience and societal problems by a man at the midstream of his
career.
An introductory essay traces the major themes in Professor
Smith's work. Part I discusses the interdisciplinary relations of
social psychology with other behavioral sciences; it shows that
social psychology, standing at the crossroads of the social
sciences, must articulate its contributions with those of the other
disciplines, and it delineates the problems involved in this
articulation. Part II presents the author's principal contributions
to the social psychology of attitudes and values, a central topic
in the field, in which he is a major proponent of the functional
approach. Part III is devoted to the broader issues of personality
theory, focusing on the "self" as the object of personal attitudes
and including a classic paper on the phenomenological approach.
Parts IV and V probe human effectiveness and "mental health,"
consider the social development of personal competence, and examine
from a social psychological perspective a variety of social
problems -foreign students and cross-cultural education, population
growth, ethnic prejudice, and student protest. The final group of
essays deals with perennial human concerns: the nature of
rationality, the ethics of behavioral research, the psychology of
literature, and the problems of evil.
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