Description:M. Brewster Smith saw himself, and has long been seen by others, as a social psychologist in the tradition of Gordon Allport, Gardner and Lois Murphy, Kurt Lewin, and Muzafer Sherif. Smith's unique ability has been to contribute to the emergence of personality as a differentiated academic field and at the same time to maintain strong interdisciplinary ties to a variety of fields from sociology to philosophy.Because of these wide-ranging concerns, the major statements of Brewster Smith have appeared in diverse places. Values, Self and Society unifies his work on values and selfhood, humanistic psychology and the social sciences, and humanism and social issues. Smith was a major thinker at home in the details of psychology and in the broad areas of public interest and social policy.In this volume, Smith discusses major issues in terms of the political processes involved in the public interest. These range from the issue of advocacy within social research to conceptualizing anew familiar issues within psychology. For the generalist interested in the broader meanings of social psychology to the specialist aiming to recapture the big issues with which the field was once identified, this volume is a must-read.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Values, Self and Society: Toward a Humanist Social Psychology. To get started finding Values, Self and Society: Toward a Humanist Social Psychology, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Values, Self and Society: Toward a Humanist Social Psychology
Description: M. Brewster Smith saw himself, and has long been seen by others, as a social psychologist in the tradition of Gordon Allport, Gardner and Lois Murphy, Kurt Lewin, and Muzafer Sherif. Smith's unique ability has been to contribute to the emergence of personality as a differentiated academic field and at the same time to maintain strong interdisciplinary ties to a variety of fields from sociology to philosophy.Because of these wide-ranging concerns, the major statements of Brewster Smith have appeared in diverse places. Values, Self and Society unifies his work on values and selfhood, humanistic psychology and the social sciences, and humanism and social issues. Smith was a major thinker at home in the details of psychology and in the broad areas of public interest and social policy.In this volume, Smith discusses major issues in terms of the political processes involved in the public interest. These range from the issue of advocacy within social research to conceptualizing anew familiar issues within psychology. For the generalist interested in the broader meanings of social psychology to the specialist aiming to recapture the big issues with which the field was once identified, this volume is a must-read.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Values, Self and Society: Toward a Humanist Social Psychology. To get started finding Values, Self and Society: Toward a Humanist Social Psychology, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.