Defining "normal" in their own image: psychological professionals, middle-class normativity, and the postwar popularization of psychology

This dissertation examines the relationship between the growth and popularization of psychology in American life in the postwar period and Americans’ belief that theirs is a “classless,” or overwhelmingly middle-class, society. I argue that psychology has, until recently, inadvertently naturalized m...

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Main Author: Hill, Victoria Campbell
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2152/8379