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1 online resource (x, 301 pages) : illustrations |
| Summary |
What I emphasize in this book, is the rich interplay between the scientific language Gordon Allport deployed and the American culture in which he was embedded. Weaving together the personal and the professional, I argue against what historian Roger Smith described as the "still dominant natural-scientific view that scientific language shuts out normative meaning." Using Allport's own experience, I draw attention to some of the ways in which the science of personality was implicated in a broad cultural transformation in the language of American selfhood. In this book, I aim to go beyond the antiquated "great man" historiography of the textbooks and toward a more dynamic and socially embedded model of scientific development. Instead of celebrating Allport's individual genius, my intention is to describe the network of circumstances that lent amplitude to his voice and made his scholarly program plausible. I examine the cultural, political, and spiritual issues at stake in the ostensibly neutral scientific language of selfhood. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved) |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-282) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| In |
PsycBooks |
| Subject |
Allport, Gordon W. (Gordon Willard), 1897-1967.
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| SUBJECT |
Allport, Gordon W. (Gordon Willard), 1897-1967 fast |
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Psychologists -- United States -- Biography
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Personality
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Psychology.
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Psychology
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Personality
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psychology.
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Psychology
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Personality
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Psychologists
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United States |
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2002033217 |
| ISBN |
155798929X |
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9781557989291 |
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