Currents of Thought in American Social Psychology

by Gary Collier, Graham Reynolds, Henry Minton

In this intriguing study, two social psychologists and an intellectual historian describe the people and intellectual currents which have given rise to the complex discipline of American social psychology. The authors examine the influence of British evolutionary theory, French social theory, American pragmatism, and the ideas of Freud, Marx and Lewin on the evolution of social psychological theory, and explain how these traditions contributed to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195061292
• ISBN13: 9780195061291
• Release Date: August 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.6" x 6.8"