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Making of Modern Social Psychology The Hidden Story of How an International Social Science Was Created

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ISBN-10: 0745629652

ISBN-13: 9780745629650

Edition: 2006 (Revised)

Authors: Serge Moscovici, Ivana Markov�, Gareth Schott

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This fascinating book makes an important contribution to the history of the social sciences. It tells the largely hidden story of how social psychology became an international social science, vividly documenting the micro-politics of a virtually forgotten committee, the Committee on Transnational Social Psychology, whose work took place against the back-drop of some of the most momentous events of the twentieth century. Overcoming intellectual, institutional and political obstacles, including the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, and the military coups in Chile or Argentine, the committee struggled to bring social psychology to global recognition, not as part of a programme of intellectual…    
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Book details

List price: $79.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 10/6/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Ivana Marková is Emeritus Professor at the University of Stirling in the UK. She has been a visiting Professor at the Universities of Oslo, Dundee, Berne, Paris, Linköping, Mexico, and London and is a Fellow of the British Academy, of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and of the British Psychological Society.Alex Gillespie is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Stirling in the UK. He trained in Trinity College Dublin, the London School of Economics, and the University of Cambridge. He was a lecturer at the University of Cambridge before moving to the University of Stirling in 2005.

List of Figures and Tables
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
The Quest for a Social Psychology of Human Beings
The Birth of a New Science
Two Sources of Modern Social Psychology
The West European Experiment
The West European Experiment
Americans and Europeans
The Transnational Committee: from New York to Rome
The European Map of Social Psychology in the Mid-1960s
The Second Milestone for European Social Psychology
The Louvain Summer School
The Ford Foundation and Fundraising for Europe
The east European Experiment
The First Encounter of a Small Science with Big History
A Strange Animal
The Latin American Experiment
Latin American Odyssey
A Second Encounter with History
An 'Invisible College.'
Crossing the Atlantic
A Crisis Delayed
Crossing the Atlantic
Pilgrims' Progress
Rays and Shadows above the Transnational Committee
Appendix
Notes
References
Index