In the late 1960s a 'crisis' erupted in social psychology, with
many social psychologists highly critical of the 'old paradigm',
laboratory-experimental approach. Originally published in 1989 The
Crisis in Modern Social Psychology was the first book to provide a
clear account of the complex body of work that is critical of
traditional social psychological approaches. Ian Parker insisted
that the 'crisis' was not over, showing how attempts to improve
social psychology had failed, and explaining why we need instead a
political understanding of social interaction which links research
with change. Modern social psychology reflects the impact of
structuralist and post-structuralist conceptual crises in other
academic disciplines, and Parker describes the work of Foucault and
Derrida sympathetically and lucidly, making these important debates
accessible to the student and discussing their influence. He
assesses the responses from both mainstream social psychology and
from avant-garde textual social psychology to the influx of these
radical ideas, and discusses the promises and pitfalls of a
post-modern view of social action.
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