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Psychological Research and the Black Self‐Concept: A Critical Review
Author(s) -
Nobles Wade W.
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.618
H-Index - 122
eISSN - 1540-4560
pISSN - 0022-4537
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-4560.1973.tb00055.x
Subject(s) - existentialism , phenomenology (philosophy) , epistemology , psychology , behaviorism , symbolic interactionism , psychological research , the symbolic , social psychology , sociology , psychoanalysis , psychotherapist , philosophy
Distinctive theoretical features characterizing research in the area of the self‐concept, with attention paid to the approaches of phenomenology, existentialism, behaviorism, and symbolic interaction, are related to investigations into the nature of the black self‐concept. A modification of Mead's symbolic interactional approaches is developed. The grounding of research on the black self‐concept in non‐African epistemologies is considered sufficient reason to discard most, if not all, previously published research in the area.