The Rise and Fall of Social Psychology

An Iconoclast's Guide to the Use and Misuse of the Experimental Method
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-202-30742-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Inc

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 386 g

Reihe: Social Problems & Social Issues

This book critically traces the attempt of social psychology over the past half century to forge a scientific understanding of human behavior based on the systematic use of experiments. Having examined the record from the conception of the field to the present, Brannigan suggests that it has failed to live up to its promise; that psychologists achieved little consensus about the central problems in the field; that they failed to amass a body of systematic, nontrivial theoretical insight; and that recent concerns over the ethical treatment of human subjects will probably bring their discipline, as we know it, to an end. In an epilogue, going beyond his iconoclasm, the author explores the prospects for a postexperimental discipline.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and Students interested in Social Psychology within both Psychology and Sociology Departments, and Social Problem Issues, also, Journalists

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brannigan, Augustine

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Geschichte der Psychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie