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A History of "Relevance" in Psychology
Buch von Wahbie Long
Sprache: Englisch

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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 ¿marketrelevance¿ 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.
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 ¿marketrelevance¿ 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.
Über den Autor
Wahbie Long is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and a Mandela Mellon Fellow of the Hutchins Center at Harvard University, USA.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Psychologie
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: xii
222 S.
2 s/w Illustr.
1 farbige Illustr.
222 p. 3 illus.
1 illus. in color.
ISBN-13: 9781137474889
ISBN-10: 1137474882
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 978-1-137-47488-9
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Long, Wahbie
Auflage: 1st edition 2016
Hersteller: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße: 216 x 153 x 18 mm
Von/Mit: Wahbie Long
Erscheinungsdatum: 04.07.2016
Gewicht: 0,423 kg
Artikel-ID: 103937024
Über den Autor
Wahbie Long is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and a Mandela Mellon Fellow of the Hutchins Center at Harvard University, USA.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Psychologie
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: xii
222 S.
2 s/w Illustr.
1 farbige Illustr.
222 p. 3 illus.
1 illus. in color.
ISBN-13: 9781137474889
ISBN-10: 1137474882
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 978-1-137-47488-9
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Long, Wahbie
Auflage: 1st edition 2016
Hersteller: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße: 216 x 153 x 18 mm
Von/Mit: Wahbie Long
Erscheinungsdatum: 04.07.2016
Gewicht: 0,423 kg
Artikel-ID: 103937024
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