Modernizing the Mind
Subtitle: Psychological Knowledge and the Remaking of Society
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: September 30, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780275974503
Subjects: History of ideas, intellectual history; Psychology; USA; Philosophy & Social Aspects; Social History; Social Science / Sociology / General; Psychotherapy - General; 20th century; History; Knowledge, Theory of; Social aspects
First sentence: ONE OF THE WAYS IN WHICH MODERN SOCIETIES HAVE BEEN distinguished from traditional or "premodern" societies is by the particular way in which they organize the production and circulation of knowledge.