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Défense de la nation contre prospérité de la discipline: engagement militaire et institutionnalisation de la psychologie au Canada (2007)

Scientia Canadensis: Journal of the History of Canadian Science, Technology, and Medicine
Volume: 30
Pages: 69--98

Publication Date: 2007
Edition Details: Part of special issue: Between Society and University: Humanities and Social Sciences in Canada
Language: French

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This article contributes to our knowledge about the rise of the social and human sicences through an examination of miltary uses of psychology in Canada and this field sensibility to external demand. The national crisis caused by WWII and the Cold War were perceived by psychologists as sizeable opportunities to promote psychological expertise outside academe and to strengthen the social authority of their discipline and profession. By the way of miltiary patronage and psychological contribution to National defense, psychological expertise then gained new symbolic and material resources. Does it mean that this field's exogeneity undermines its disciplinary pracitices or knowledge production? It is said that this is an empirical question that bears no univocal answers.

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Article Gingras, Yves; Warren, Jean-Philippe (2007) Introduction. Scientia Canadensis: Journal of the History of Canadian Science, Technology, and Medicine (p. 1). unapi

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