TY  - BOOK
AU  - Deese,James
TI  - American Freedom and the Social Sciences
T2  - Critical Assessments of Contemporary Psychology
SN  - 9780231902526
PY  - 1985///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - Columbia University Press, 
KW  - PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; 1. A Collision Course --; 2. The Rise of Scientific Determinism --; 3. The Varieties of Determinism --; 4. Free Will, Voluntary Action, and Freedom --; 5. The Ethos of Contemporary Psychology: I. Behaviorism --; 6. The Ethos of Contemporary Psychology: II. Social Psychology --; 7. The Ethos of Contemporary Psychology: III. Psychohistory --; 8. Objectivity and Subjectivity in Social Science --; 9. Our Conceptions of Ourselves --; Notes --; References --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Discusses the two overarching and competing ideas of freedom and responsibility within American society up to the 1980's. Examines the concepts of determinism, free will, and social psychology as a whole
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7312/dees90252
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231877817
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780231877817.jpg
ER  -