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A History of "Relevance" in Psychology (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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A History of "Relevance" in Psychology (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Series: Palgrave Studies in the Theory and History of Psychology
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This book represents the first attempt to historicise and theorise
appeals for 'relevance' in psychology. It argues that the
persistence of questions about the 'relevance' of psychology
derives from the discipline's terminal inability to define its
subject matter, its reliance on a socially disinterested science to
underwrite its knowledge claims, and its consequent failure to
address itself to the needs of a rapidly changing world. The
chapters go on to consider the 'relevance' debate within South
African psychology, by critically analysing discourse of forty-five
presidential, keynote and opening addresses delivered at annual
national psychology congresses between 1950 and 2011, and observes
how appeals for 'relevance' were advanced by reactionary,
progressive and radical psychologists alike. The book presents,
moreover, the provocative thesis that the revolutionary quest for
'social relevance' that began in the 1960s has been supplanted by
an ethic of 'market relevance' that threatens to isolate the
discipline still further from the anxieties of broader society.
With powerful interest groups continuing to co-opt psychologists
without relent, this is a development that only psychologists of
conscience can arrest.
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