Steven C. Ward

Modernizing the Mind (eBook, PDF)

Psychological Knowledge and the Remaking of Society

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

When did fidgety children begin to suffer from attention deficit disorder? How did frightened people come to be called paranoid? Why are we considered to have emotional intelligence and not simply caring personalities? While psychological knowledge began in the relative isolation of laboratories and universities, it has since permeated various professions, institutions, and everyday life. Society and our conceptions of self have fundamentally changed with psychology's modernization of the mind. Ward provides a social and cultural history of the spread of psychological knowledge, assessing the way this proliferation has reconfigured society's meaning, and the way people view themselves and others. Using ideas borrowed from science and technology studies, the sociology of culture, and the sociology of organizations, Ward examines how American psychology established itself as the central purveyor of truth about the mind and self in the 20th century. He examines how psychology has essentially become common knowledge, and his innovative account offers a novel theory about the growth and influence of numerous different knowledge forms.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313012204
• Artikelnr.: 37813540

Autorenporträt

STEVEN C. WARD is Associate Professor of Sociology at Western Connecticut State University. He is the author of Reconfiguring Truth: Postmodernism, Science Studies and the Search for a New Model of Knowledge (1996).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction How Truth Travels: Knowledge, Networks and the Organization of
Society From a Moral Philosophy to a Science: The Struggle to Construct and
Defend the "New Psychology" For the Children: The Alliance of Psychology
and Education Molding Morals and Minds: Psychology and the Modernization of
Parenting Minds, Measures, and Machines: The Materialization of
Psychological Ideas A Séance or a Science? Psychology and Its Publics
Psychological Codes of Civility and the Practice of Everyday Life The
Psychologically Examined Life: Issues, Healing, Closure, and the
Psychotherapeutic Self Conclusion: The Psychologization of the United
States Appendix: A Few Important Dates in the History of American
Psychology Bibliography Index