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Social psychology has the potential to address broad societal issue --to focus attention on the individual's relationship to the larger social system. Social psychologists have addressed injustice, inequality, political theory, social change, the prospects for a better world, psychology's role in society, and other useful topics. Too often, though, mainstream social psychology examines relatively trivial issues or -- perhaps just as troubling -- broad issues in a trivial, unchallenging way.
Many of these books and articles were written by social psychologists. Some are standards of social psychology, including a few textbooks that raise interesting issues. Others cover topics that critical psychology students should find thought provoking, even though the topics might not be considered "social psychological" by mainstream practitoners. Community psychology, developmental psychology, and other areas of psychology are inherently "social." History, economics, anthropology, political theory, and other fields examine topics that shape our assumptions about how human beings behave. This is not a comprehensive list of either mainstream or critical social psychology readings. Not a list of classic or significant works. Not an even-handed list showing "both sides." It's idiosyncratic, reflecting some of my own past and current interests, including psychology and law, corporate power, and anarchist theory. Please let me know if you have suggestions, or URLs of related lists. |
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This list is very much out of date. It began with lists I prepared in the 1980s for advanced seminars. I occasionally add new material I've read or that others recommend. The topics overlap and are not precise. I list items in only one category even when they are relevant more broadly. No, I haven't read them all, and I don't agree with them all, and they all don't agree with one another. Life's not that simple.
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Albee, George W. (1986) Toward a Just Society: Lessons From Observations on the Primary Prevention of Psychopathology. American Psychologist, 41, 891-898.
Archibald, W. P. (1978). Social psychology as political economy. New York: McGraw-Hill.
Armistead, Nigel (Ed.). (1974). Reconstructing social psychology. Penguin Books.
Baritz, L. (1974). The Servants of Power: A History of the Use of Social Science in American Industry. Westport, CT: Greenwood.
Billig, M. (1982). Ideology and social psychology. Oxford, England: Blackwell.
Braginsky, B. M., and Braginsky, D. D. (1974). Mainstream Psychology: A Critique. New York: Holt, Rinehart, & Winston.
Brown, Laura S. (1997). Ethics in Psychology: Cui Bono? Chapter in D. Fox & I. Prilleltensky (Eds.), Critical Psychology: An Introduction. London: Sage Publications.
Brown, P. (Ed.). (1973). Radical psychology. New York: Harper.
Brown, P. (1974). Toward a Marxist psychology. New York: Harper.
Buss, A. R. (Ed.). (1979). Psychology in social context. New York: Wiley.
Campbell, E. (1984) Humanistic Psychology: The End of Innocence (a view from inside the parentheses). Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 24(2), 6-29.
Caplan, N., & Nelson, S. D. (1973). On being useful: The nature and consequences of psychological research on social problems. American Psychologist, 28, 199-211.
Du Preez, P. (1980). Social psychology of politics. Oxford: Blackwell.
Fay, B. (1975). Social theory and political practice. London: Allen & Unwin.
Fox, D. R. (1985). Psychology, Ideology, Utopia, and the Commons. American Psychologist, 40, 48-58.
Fox, D. R. (1986). Beyond Individualism and Centralization. American Psychologist, 41, 231-232. [Comment]
Fox, D. R. (1992). A Political Framework for the Introductory Social Psychology Course. Contemporary Social Psychology, 16, 37-39.
Fox, Dennis R., & Prilleltensky, Isaac (1993). Will Psychology Pay Attention to its Own Radical Critics? Conversation hour conducted at the annual convention of the American Psychological Association, Toronto. [Founding meeting of the Radical Psychology Network]
Fox, Dennis R., & Prilleltensky, Isaac (1996). The Inescapable Nature of Politics in Psychology: A Response to O'Donohue and Dyslin. New Ideas in Psychology, 14, 21-26.
Fox, Dennis., & Prilleltensky, Isaac (Eds.). (1997). Critical Psychology: An Introduction. London: Sage Publications.
Fromm, E. (1962). Beyond the chains of illusion: My encounter with Marx and Freud. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Gamson, William A., & Modigliani, Andre (1979). Conceptions of Social Life: A Text-Reader for Social Psychology. Washington, DC: University Press of America.
Harré, R., & Secord, P. F. (1972). The Explanation of Social Behavior. Oxford: Blackwell.
Harris, Ben (1997). Repoliticizing the History of Psychology. Chapter in D. Fox & I. Prilleltensky (Eds.), Critical Psychology: An Introduction. London: Sage Publications.
Herman, Ellen (1995). The Romance of American Psychology: Political Culture in the Age of Experts. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Himmelweit, Hilde T., & Gaskell, George (Eds.). (1990). Societal Psychology. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
Hogan, R. T., & Emler, N. P. (1978). The biases in contemporary social psychology. Social Research, 45, 478-534.
Howitt, D. (1991). Concerning Psychology: Psychology Applied to Social Issues. Open University Press.
Jacoby, Russell (1975). Social amnesia: A critique of contemporary psychology from Adler to Laing. Boston: Beacon.
Jacoby, R. & Glauberman, N. (Eds). (1995). The Bell Curve Debate: History, Documents, Opinions. New York: Times Books.
Joffe, Justin M., & Albee, George (Eds.). (1981). Prevention Through Political Action and Social Change. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England.
Kelman, H. C. (1968). A time to speak: On human values and social research. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Lerner, Michael. (1991). Surplus Powerlessness: The Psychodynamics of Everyday Life . . . and the Psychology of Individual and Social Transformation (revised ed). Humanities Press.
Martín-Baró, Ignacio. (1994). (Adrianne Aron & Shawn Corne, Eds.). Writings for a liberation psychology. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Mills, C. W. (1959). The sociological imagination. New York: Oxford University Press.
Moghaddam, Fathali M., & Studer, Charles. (1997). Cross Cultural Psychology: The Frustrated Gadfly's Promises, Potentialities and Failures. Chapter in D. Fox & I. Prilleltensky (Eds.), Critical Psychology: An Introduction. London: Sage Publications.
Nightingale, David, & Neilands, Tor (1997).Understanding and Practicing Critical Psychology. Chapter in D. Fox & I. Prilleltensky (Eds.), Critical Psychology: An Introduction. London: Sage Publications.
Ollman, B., & Vernoff, E. (Eds.). (1982). The left academy: Marxist scholarship on American campuses. New York: McGraw-Hill.
Pancer, S. Mark (1997). Social Psychology: The Crisis Continues. Chapter in D. Fox & I. Prilleltensky (Eds.), Critical Psychology: An Introduction. London: Sage Publications.
Parker, Ian (1989). The Crisis in Modern Social Psychology.
Parker, Ian (1992). Discourse Dynamics: Critical Analysis for Social and Individual Psychology. London: Routledge.
Parker, Ian (1997). Discursive Psychology. Chapter in D. Fox & I. Prilleltensky (Eds.), Critical Psychology: An Introduction. London: Sage Publications.
Parker, I., & Shotter, J. (Eds.). (1990). Deconstructing Social Psychology. London: Routledge.
Parker, I., & Spears, Russell (Eds.). (1996). Psychology and Society: Radical Theory and Practice. London & Chicago: Pluto Press.
Prilleltensky, Isaac (1989). Psychology and the Status Quo. American Psychologist. 44, 795-802.
Prilleltensky, Isaac (1990). Enhancing the Social Ethics of Psychology: Toward a Psychology at the Service of Social Change. Canadian Psychology, 31, 310-319.
Prilleltensky, Isaac (1992). Radical Behaviorism and the Social Order. Counseling and Values, 36, 104-111.
Prilleltensky, Isaac (1994). The morals and politics of psychology: Psychological discourse and the status quo. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
Prilleltensky, I. (1997). Values, Assumptions, and Practices: Assessing the Moral Implications of Psychological Discourse and Action. American Psychologist.
Prilleltensky, Isaac, & Fox, Dennis (Eds.) (1997). Introducing Critical Psychology: Values, Assumptions and the Status Quo. Chapter in D. Fox & I. Prilleltensky (Eds.), Critical Psychology: An Introduction. London: Sage Publications.
Prilleltensky, Isaac, & Nelson, Geoffrey (1997). Community Psychology: Reclaiming Social Justice. Chapter in D. Fox & I. Prilleltensky (Eds.), Critical Psychology: An Introduction. London: Sage Publications.
Prilleltensky, I., & Nelson, G. (2002). Doing psychology critically: Making a difference in diverse settings. London: Palgrave.
Rappaport, J. (1981) In Praise of Paradox: A Social Policy of Empowerment Over Prevention. American Journal of Community Psychology, 9, 1-25.
Rappaport, J. (1987). Terms of empowerment/exemplars of prevention: Toward a theory of community psychology. American Journal of Community Psychology, 15, 121-144.
Rappaport, Julian, & Stewart, Eric (1997). A Critical Look at Critical Psychology: Elaborating the Questions. Chapter in D. Fox & I. Prilleltensky (Eds.), Critical Psychology: An Introduction. London: Sage Publications.
Reicher, S., & Parker, I. (1993). Psychology politics resistance--the birth of a new organization. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 3, 77-80.
Rein, M. (1976). Social science and public policy. New York: Penguin.
Richardson, Frank C., & Fowers, Blaine J. (1997). Critical Theory, Postmodernism, and Hermeneutics: Insights for Critical Psychology. Chapter in D. Fox & I. Prilleltensky (Eds.), Critical Psychology: An Introduction. London: Sage Publications.
Roberts, Helen (Ed.). (1981). Doing feminist research. Boston: Routledge.
Sampson, E. E. (1977). Psychology and the American ideal. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 35, 767-782.
Sampson, E. E. (1983). Justice and the Critique of Pure Psychology. New York: Plenum.
Sarason, Seymour B. (1981). Psychology Misdirected. New York: Free Press.
Sarason, Seymour B. (1982). Psychology and social action: Selected papers. New York: Praeger.
Segall, Marshall H., Dasen, Pierre R., Berry, John W., & Poortinga, Ype H. (1990). Human Behavior in Global Perspective: An Introduction to Cross-Cultural Psychology. New York: Pergamon.
Sennett, Richard (1977). The Psychology of Society: An Anthology.
Sloan, Tod (1996). Life Choices: Understanding Dilemmas and Decisions. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
Sloan, T. (Ed.). (2000). Critical psychology: Voices for change. Hampshire, England: Macmillan Press.
Smith, M. B. (1974). Humanizing social psychology. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Smith, M. B. (1990). Psychology in the public interest: What have we done? What can we do? American Psychologist, 45, 530-536
Steininger, M., Newell, J. D., & Garcia, L. T. (1984). Ethical issues in psychology. Homewood, IL: Dorsey.
Sullivan, E. V. (1984). A critical psychology. New York: Plenum.
Tajfel, Henri, & Fraser, Colin (Eds.). (1978). Introducing Social Psychology: An Analysis of Individual Reaction and Response. New York: Penguin.
Tolman, Charles W. (1994). Psychology, society, and subjectivity: An introduction to German Critical Psychology. London/New York: Routledge.
Tolman, Charles W. & Maiers, Wolfgang (eds) (1991). Critical psychology: Contributions to an historical science of the subject. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Wallach, M. A., & Wallach, L. (1983). Psychology's sanction for selfishness: The error of egoism in theory and therapy. San Francisco: Freeman.
Wexler, P. (1983). Critical social psychology. Boston: Routledge.
Ceci, S. J., Peters, D., & Plotkin, J. (1985). Human Subjects Review, Personal Values, and the Regulation of Social Science Research. American Psychologist, 40, 994-1002.
Chomsky, Noam (1969). The Function of the University in a Time of Crisis. In For Reasons of State. New York: Random House, 1973.
Deutsch, Morton (1979). Education and Distributive Justice: Some Reflections on Grading Systems. American Psychologist, 34, 391-401.
Fox, Dennis R. (1983). The Pressure to Publish: A Graduate Student's Personal Plea. Teaching of Psychology, 10, 177-178.
Fox, Dennis R. ( 1984). Alternative Perspectives on the Pressure to Publish. Teaching of Psychology, 11, 239-241. Freire, P. (1970). Pedagogy of the Oppressed. New York: Seabury.
Freire, P. (1972). Pedagogy of the oppressed. New York: Herder and Herder.
Freire, P. (1975). Education for critical consciousness. New York: Seabury.
Henwood, K. & Pidgeon, N. (1994). Beyond the qualitative paradigm: A framework for introducing diversity within qualitative psychology. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 4, 225-238.
Hettich, P., Lema-Stern, S., & Rizzo, J. V. (1981). Dear Graduate Student (and Future Professor): Teaching of Psychology, 8, 156-158.
Kidder, Louise H., & Fine, Michelle (1997). Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology: A Radical Tradition. Chapter in D. Fox & I. Prilleltensky (Eds.), Critical Psychology: An Introduction. London: Sage Publications.
Mahoney, M. J. (1985). Open Exchange and Epistemic Progress. American Psychologist, 40, 29-39.
Orenstein, D. M., & Luken, P. C. (1978). Anarchistic Methodology: Methodological Anti-Authoritarianism as a Resolution to Paradigmatic Disputes in the Social Sciences. Sociological Focus, 11, 53-68.
Park, Peter, Brydon-Miller, Mary, Hall, Budd, & Jackson, Ted (Eds). (1993). Voices of Change: Participatory Research in the United States and Canada. Bergin & Garvey Press.
Rubin, Z. (1978). On Measuring Productivity by the Length on One's Vita. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 4, 197-198.
Schmidt, J. (2000). Disciplined minds: A critical look at salaried professionals and the soul-battering system that shapes their lives. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
Shor, I. (1980). Critical thinking and everyday life. Boston: South End Press.
Slife, Brent and Williams, Richard (1995). What's behind the research? London: Sage Publications
Soley, Lawrence C. (1995). Leasing the Ivory Tower: The Corporate Takeover of Academia. Boston: South End Press.
Student Cooperative Union (1983). Education Liberation: From Education Union to Dual Power. La Jolla, CA.
Wachtel, Paul (1980). Investigation and Its Discontents: Some Constraints on Progress in Psychological Research. American Psychologist, 35, 399-408.
World Student Christian Federation (1980). Getting Educated About Education, Education for Change Project.
Campbell, T. (1981). Seven theories of human society. New York: Oxford University.
Clastres, P. (1977). Society against the state: The leader as servant and the humane uses of power among the Indians of the Americas. (R. Hurley, Trans.). New York: Urizen Books. (Original 1974)
Freud, Sigmund (1930). Civilization and its discontents. New York: Norton.
Fried, M. H. (1967). The evolution of political society. New York: Random House.
Gould, Stephen Jay (1981). The mismeasure of man. New York: Norton.
Hornstein, H. A. (1976). Cruelty and kindness: A new look at aggression and altruism. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
Hyde, L. (1983). The gift: Imagination and the erotic life of property. New York: Vintage. [Great book!]
Kropotkin, P. (1902). Mutual aid: A factor in evolution. Boston: Extending Horizons.
Montagu, Ashley (Ed.). (1978). Learning non-aggression: The experience of non-literate societies. New York: Oxford University Press.
Pastore, N. (1949). The nature-nurture controversy. New York: King's Crown Press.
Pennock, J. R., & Chapman, J. W. (Eds.). (1977). Human nature in politics. New York: NYU Press.
Sahlins, M. (1972). Stone age economics. Chicago: Aldine.
Sampson, Edward E. (1993). Celebrating the Other: A Dialogic Account of Human Nature. Westview Press.
Schwartz, Barry (1986). The battle for human nature: Science, morality, and modern life. New York: Norton.
Sloan, Tod (1997). Theories of Personality: Ideology and Beyond. Chapter in D. Fox & I. Prilleltensky (Eds.), Critical Psychology: An Introduction. London: Sage Publications.
Stevenson, L. (1974). Seven theories of human nature. New York: Oxford University Press.
Wrightsman, L. S. (1974). Assumptions about human nature: A social-psychological approach. Monterey, CA: Brooks/Cole.
Bakan, D. (1966). The duality of human existence: An essay on psychology and religion. Chicago: Rand McNally.
Barrett, M., & McIntosh, M. (1982). The anti-social family. London: Verso.
Berger, B., & Berger, P. L. (1984). The war over the family: Capturing the middle ground. Garden City, NY: Anchor Press.
Burman, Erica. (1994). Deconstructing Developmental Psychology. London: Routledge.
Burman, Erica. (1997). Developmental Psychology and its Discontents. Chapter in D. Fox & I. Prilleltensky (Eds.), Critical Psychology: An Introduction. London: Sage Publications.
Deaux, K. (1976). The behavior of women and men. Monterey, CA: Brooks/Cole.
Foucault, M. (1978). The History of Sexuality: An Introduction. New York: Vintage.
Gilligan, C. (1982). In a different voice: Psychological theory and women's development. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Guttentag, M., & Secord, P.F. (1983). Too many women? The sex ratio question. Beverly Hills: Sage.
Hare-Mustin, Rachel T., & Marecek, Jeanne. (1990). Making a Difference: Psychology and the Construction of Gender. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Kitzinger, Celia. (1997). Lesbian and Gay Psychology: A Critical Analysis. Chapter in D. Fox & I. Prilleltensky (Eds.), Critical Psychology: An Introduction. London: Sage Publications.
Kornegger, P. (1979). Anarchism: The Feminist Connection. In H. J. Ehrlich et al. (Eds.), Reinventing Anarchy. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
Laing, R. D., & Esterson, A. (1964). Sanity, madness and the family. Baltimore: Penguin.
Lips, H. M. (1981). Women, men, and the psychology of power. Englwood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
Lott, B. (1985) The Potential Enrichment of Social/Personality Psychology Through Feminist Research and Vice Versa. American Psychologist, 40, 155-164.
Morss, John. (1990). The Biologising of Childhood: Developmental Psychology and the Darwinian Myth. New Jersey: Erlbaum.
Morss, John. (1996). Growing Critical: Alternatives to Developmental Psychology. London: Routledge.
Pollack, S. (1985, Sept.). Exposing the Conservative Agenda: Women's Studies Minus Feminism. Radical Teacher, No. 29, 19-23.
Singer, J. (1977). Androgyny: Toward a new theory of sexuality. Garden City: Anchor.
Smart, C. (1984). The ties that bind: Law, marriage and the reproduction of patriarchal relations. London: Routledge.
Wilkinson, Sue. (1997). Feminist Psychology. Chapter in D. Fox & I. Prilleltensky (Eds.), Critical Psychology: An Introduction. London: Sage Publications.
Zaretsky, E. (1976). Capitalism, the family, and personal life. New York: Harper.
Albee, G. W. (1996). Social Darwinism and Political Models of Mental/Emotional Problems. Special Issue of Journal of Primary Prevention, 17(1).
Bursten, Ben. (1984). Beyond Psychiatric Expertise. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas.
Cernovsky, Zack, Z. (1997). A Critical Look at Intelligence Research. Chapter in D. Fox & I. Prilleltensky (Eds.), Critical Psychology: An Introduction. London: Sage Publications.
Chesler, P. (1989). Women and Madness. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich.
Cohen, D. (Ed.). (1990). Challenging the Therapeutic State: Critical Perspectives on Psychiatry and the Mental Health System. [Special issue]. Journal of Mind and Behavior, 11(3/4).
Cohen, D. (Ed.). (1994). Challenging the Therapeutic State, Part Two: Further Disquisitions on the Mental Health System. [Special issue]. Journal of Mind and Behavior 15(1/2).
Foucault, M. (1971). Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason. London: Tavistock.
Fox, Dennis R. (1994). Observations on Disability Evaluation in the Social Security Administration. Journal of Social Behavior and Personality, 9, 237-246. [Related paper also available: Governmental Ideology and Bureaucratic Reality in Mental Disability Evaluation]
Hare-Mustin, Rachel T., & Marecek, Jeanne. (1997). Abnormal and Clinical Psychology: The Politics of Madness. Chapter in D. Fox & I. Prilleltensky (Eds.), Critical Psychology: An Introduction. London: Sage Publications.
Hillman, James & Ventura, Michael. (1978). We've Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy and the World's Getting Worse. Harper Collins.
Ingleby, David (Ed.). (2004). Critical psychiatry: The politics of mental health. Free Association Books (originally published 1980).
McGovern, Constance M. (1985). Masters of Madness: Social Origins of the American Psychiatric Profession. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England.
Melton, Gary B. (1994). Therapy Through Law [Review of the Book Essays in Therapeutic Jurisprudence]. Contemporary Psychology, 39, 215-216.
Modrow, John. (1992). How to Become a Schizophrenic: The Case Against Biological Psychiatry. Everett, WA: Apollyon Press.
Petrila, J. (1993). Paternalism and the Unrealized Promise of Essays in Therapeutic Jurisprudence [Review of the Book Essays in Therapeutic Jurisprudence]. New York Law School Journal of Human Rights, 10, 877-905.
Ryan, Tom & Casey, Bob. (1981). Screw: A Guard's View of Bridgewater State Hospital. Boston: South End Press.
Stone, Deborah H. (1984). The Disabled State. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
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