The Roots of Modern Social Psychology: 1872-1954 - Softcover

Farr, Robert M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0631194479 ISBN 13: 9780631194477

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 1996

Synopsis

This volume traces the origins of social psychology in both the European and American traditions of thought, and seeks to place modern social psychology in its historical setting.

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From the Back Cover:

This volume traces the origins of social psychology in both the European and American traditions of thought, and seeks to place modern social psychology in its historical setting. Beginning with the emergence of psychology as an experimental and social science in Germany in the middle of the nineteenth century, the analysis continues until the emergence of the modern highly individualised discipline in the post-war era in America.

The Roots of Modern Social Psychology focuses on the relations between psychology and the social sciences, includes sociological forms of social psychology and tackles its historiography as well as its history. It challenges the accuracy and inadequacy of the existing histories and sets out a new agenda that will be important reading for students and researchers alike.

About the Author:

Robert M. Farr is Professor of Social Psychology at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0631194479
• ISBN 13: 9780631194477
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224