The Future of an Illusion: American Social Psychology
- 1 January 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
- Vol. 4 (1) , 173-176
- https://doi.org/10.1177/014616727800400137
Abstract
American social psychology is regarded by some to be suffering a crisis of confidence. The crisis can be assessed by examining the implicit assumptions which dominate American social psychology, and the illusions which stem therefrom. One such assumption is that a science of the person can be formulated, an unlikely premise when cross-cultural research is taken into account. A second assumption is that empirical social science is a value-free endeavor which proceeds cumulatively toward truth. A corollary is that training American social psychologists has become increasingly specialized, is linguistically isolated, and is victimized by incestuous relations within the power structure.Keywords
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