Book ID: CBB001422473

Norms, Groups, Conflict, and Social Change: Rediscovering Muzafer Sherif's Psychology (2015)

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Dost-Gozkan, Ayfer (Editor)
Keith, Doga Sonmez (Editor)


Transaction Publishers


Publication Date: 2015
Physical Details: xiv + 397 pp.; ill.; index
Language: English

This book is about the life and work of a Turkish-American social scientist, Muzafer Sherif (1905--1988). He was known for his seminal work on norm and group formations, social judgment, and intergroup conflicts and cooperation. Although Sherif is identified as one of the founders of social psychology, his contribution to the science of psychology goes beyond the limits of social psychology as it is generally defined today. This volume aims to rediscover the theory and research of its subject in the socio-historical context of his time, as well as his relevance for contemporary psychology. Chapters cover a range of topics: an in-depth portrayal of Sherif's life and intellectual struggle in Turkey and in the United States; his metatheoretical considerations on the science of psychology; his theory and research on group and intergroup relationships, social norms and social change; formation and change of frames of reference, ego-involvements and identity; and psychology of slogans. Sherif had profound life experiences in different cultural contexts from the Ottoman Empire and World War I to American universities, which enabled him to see the essentiality of the historico-cultural context in the formation of human phenomena. Sherif's psychology is an elegant exemplar of an integrative science of psychology that is worth rediscovering.

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Authors & Contributors
Cihan Artunç
Seven Ağır
Bilgili, Alper
Knoblauch, Joy Ruth
Williams, Clarence G.
Wailoo, Keith
Concepts
Social sciences
Psychology
Human sciences
Universities and colleges
Science and society
Botany
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
21st century
Places
Turkey
United States
Ottoman Empire
Great Britain
Istanbul (Turkey)
Afghanistan
Institutions
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
Harvard University
Brown University
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