Psychology in Social Context

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Psychology in Social Context: Issues and Debates provides acritical perspective on debates and controversies that have dividedopinion within psychology both past and present. * Explores the history of psychology through examples of classicand contemporary debates that have split the discipline and sparkedchange, including race and IQ, psychology and gender, ethicalissues in psychology, parapsychology and the nature-nurturedebate * Represents a unique approach to studying the nature ofpsychology by combining historical controversies with contemporarydebates within the discipline * Sets out a clear view of psychology as a reflexive humanscience, embedded in and shaped by particular socio-historicalcontexts * Written in an accessible style using a range of pedagogicalfeatures - such as set learning outcomes, self-test questions, andfurther reading suggestions at the end of each chapter

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"These issues aside, this is a compelling and wide-ranging book that encourages the reader to look for the moral values and cultural assumptions at the heart of the apparently unbiased science that is psychology." (The Psychologist, 1 November 2011) "Presenting important ideas about the ways that psychologists view the knowledge they generate, this book would be a good companion to a textbook based on the conventional hypothetical-deductive model of research. Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty." (Choice, 1 October 2011)Psychology in Social Context is a book that should becompulsory reading for all psychology undergraduates. However youdefine psychology, it is a discipline that is rooted in a socialcontext with traditional underlying philosophical assumptions abouthow behaviour should be defined and explained. This book bringsthese important and much overlooked issues to life and willchallenge students to think more deeply about many of the featuresof their psychology courses that both they - and theirteachers - often take for granted. --Graham C.L. Davey, Professor of Psychology,University of Sussex, UK I wish Psychology in Social Context: Issues and Debateshad been available long ago. This thought-provoking book is auseful corrective to traditional texts that, with little regard forpsychology's sociopolitical context, misrepresent thediscipline's conventional ways of doing things as inexorablyleading in positive directions. But rather than reject psychologyas hopelessly irredeemable, Psychology in Social Contextoffers a constructive overview of the bottom line: students whounderstand psychology's historical and cultural trajectory canthink more critically about the field's mainstream norms, learningto sort out when traditional approaches might be merely habitualrather than appropriate and useful, and when alternatives mightmake more sense. The book's clear and engaging descriptionsof controversial issues will generate animated classroom discussionin traditional introductory or social psychology courses as well asin critical psychology. --Dennis Fox, Emeritus Associate Professor of LegalStudies & Psychology, University of Illinois, USA Informed by the latest conceptual and historical scholarship,Psychology in Social Context: Issues and Debates is anastute examination of a clutch of problems and controversies thatderive from the recognition that Psychology is saturated withethical values, social ambitions and political agendas. Thisradical yet accessible text has the potential to inspire an entiregeneration of psychologists into rethinking the processes theyemploy to develop practice and generate knowledge. --Geoff Bunn, Chair, BPS History &Philosophy of Psychology Section, Manchester MetropolitanUniversity, UK
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