List of Figures and Tables.
Preface.
Acknowledgements.
List of Abbreviations..
I: The Quest for a Social Psychology of Human Beings.
1. The Birth of a New Science.
2. Two Sources of Modern Social Psychology..
II. The West European Experiment.
3. The West European Experiment.
3. Americans and Europeans.
4. The Transnational Committee: from New York to Rome.
5. The European Map of Social Psychology in the Mid-1960s.
6. The Second Milestone for European Social Psychology.
7. The Louvain Summer School.
8. The Ford Foundation and Fundraising for Europe..
III. The east European Experiment.
9. The First Encounter of a Small Science with Big History.
10. A Strange Animal..
IV. The Latin American Experiment.
11. Latin American Odyssey.
12. A Second Encounter with History.
13. An 'Invisible College.'.
V. Crossing the Atlantic.
14. A Crisis Delayed.
15. Crossing the Atlantic.
16. Pilgrims' Progress.
17. Rays and Shadows above the Transnational Committee.
Appendix.
Notes.
References.
Index.
Serge Moscovici is Professor of Social Psychology, l'Ecole
des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris.
Ivana Markova is Professor of Social Psychology, University of Stirling.
"It has been a great pleasure to read this book – its thorough
scholarship and entertaining writing style make it into a
masterpiece. As a concise history of recent social psychology
worldwide (1960s-1970s), it is a unique treatise on the
institutional moves and personal relationships of leading social
psychologists on both sides of the Atlantic. This sophisticated
case study adds a crucial voice to historical and sociological
scholarship. It will be particularly useful at graduate and
postgraduate levels – in courses on history of psychology in
general, and in special seminars on history of social psychology.
This book covers the material precisely as I would like, and will
be ideal for use in my seminars as core reading."
Joan Valsiner, Professor of Psychology, Clark University, USA, and
Editor, Culture & Psychology
"This is a richly documented and vivid account of key events in the
formation of an academic discipline. It shows how individuals make
history, albeit not in conditions of their own making, by seeking
an alternative path for the globalization of knowledge. The book
traces the apparent failure of the project of rescuing a social
psychology of human beings from the global diffusion of a local USA
model (individualists, prescriptive, ethnocentric). Ironically,
this "invisible college" was initiated by a visionary group of US
scholars mobilizing allies in Europe, Latin America, and Asia under
adverse Cold-War conditions. This is an encouraging book. The
project of a universally relevant social psychology will continue
to inspire the quest for genuine human understanding."
Martin W. Bauer, Director MSc Social and Public Communication,
Institute of Social Psychology & Methodology Institute, London
School of Economics
"This fascinating and important book makes out a carefully
documented and persuasive case that one virtually forgotten
committee, more than any other body, was responsible for shaping
the international social psychology we know today. The book will be
an essential source for future research on and understanding of the
history of social psychology and anyone with an interest in that
history really should read it."
Colin Fraser, Department of Social Developmental Psychology,
University of Cambridge
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