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The Psychological Insurgency: 1936–1945
Author(s) -
Finison Lorenz J.
Publication year - 1986
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.1540-4560.1986.tb00202.x
Subject(s) - left wing politics , contradiction , politics , principal (computer security) , insurgency , front (military) , power (physics) , value (mathematics) , perception , period (music) , social conflict , political economy , political science , sociology , social psychology , psychology , law , aesthetics , epistemology , engineering , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics , machine learning , neuroscience , computer science , operating system , mechanical engineering
The materials for this paper come from extensive archival research and oral histories conducted from 1973 to 1985. The materials are used to show how and why the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) and related organizations developed as they did. I argue that these organizations developed in four principal contexts: first, the employment crises of social scientists during the thirties; second, the central contradiction between social scientists' self‐perception as “value free” and their perceived responsibility to respond to the economic and cultural crises of the period; third, the relative positions of various leftist political groups of the time, their sectarian strife, and the influence of the Popular Front; and fourth, connections to power elites during World War II.