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Values, Self and Society - Toward a Humanist Social Psychology (Paperback)
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In a tough opening statement, M. Brewster Smith outlines his own
life course and contrasts it with the agenda of social psychology
in the present professional moment. "Today's journals, textbooks,
and conferences represent a vigorous but narrow scientific
specialty in psychology, the practitioners of which are more
closely focused on agendas that are primarily and often only
intelligible within the subdiscipline than was the case when I
formed my identity as a psychologist." In contrast, Smith sees
himself, and has long been seen by others, as a social psychologist
in the tradition of Gordon Allport, Gardner and Lois Murphy, Kurt
Lewin, and Muzafer Sherif. Smith's unique ability has been to
contribute to the emergence of personality as a differentiated
academic field and at the same time maintain strong
interdisciplinary ties to a variety of fields ranging from
sociology to philosophy. In recent years, such concerns have made
the author a central figure in the development of Humanistic
Psychology as a part of the American Psychological Association.
Because of these wide ranging concerns, the major statements of
Brewster Smith have appeared in diverse places. Here, brought into
a unified and uniform frame of reference, one has his work on
values and selfhood, humanistic psychology and the social sciences,
and humanism and social issues brought together for the first time.
The picture is of a major thinker who is at home in the details of
psychology and in the broad areas of public interest and social
policy. Brewster Smith discusses major issues in terms of the
political processes involved in the public interest. These range
from the issue of advocacy within social research to
conceptualizing anew familiar issues within psychology. For the
generalist interested in the broader meanings of social psychology
to the specialist aiming to recapture the big issues with which the
field was once identified, this is a must volume.
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