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Cookie akzeptierenWahbie Long
A History of ¿Relevance¿ in Psychology
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- 2020
- Taschenbuch
- 236 Seiten
- ISBN 9781349692835
This book represents the first attempt to historicise and theorise appeals for ¿relevance¿ in psychology. It argues that the persistence of questions about the ¿relevance¿ of psychology derives from the discipline¿s terminal inability to define its subject matter, its reliance on a socially disinterested science to underwrite its knowledge claims, and its consequent failure to address itself to the needs of a rapidly changing world. The chapters go on to consider the ¿relevance¿ debate within South African psychology, by critically analysing discourse of forty-five presidential, keynote and opening addresses delivered at annual national psychology congresses between 1950 and 2011, and observes how appeals for ¿relevance¿ were
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