The Social Psychology of J. F. Brown: Radical Field Theory

Junius Flagg Brown, one of Lewin's most brilliant students, extended field theory to social psychology even before Lewin. Brown's Psychology and the Social Order (1936) provided a distinctive integration of field theory, psychoanalysis, and the Marxist view of society. The theory advocated...

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Published in:The Journal of mind and behavior 1980-04, Vol.1 (1), p.73-84
Main Authors: Stone, William F., Finison, Lorenz J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Child psychology
Dialectical materialism
Marxian economics
Marxism
Personality psychology
Psychoanalysis
Psychology
Psychology/Psychological/ Psychologically/ Psychologism
Social order
Social problem/Social problems
Social psychology
Social psychology/Social psychologist/Social psychological (see also Psychosocial)
Social sciences
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Summary:Junius Flagg Brown, one of Lewin's most brilliant students, extended field theory to social psychology even before Lewin. Brown's Psychology and the Social Order (1936) provided a distinctive integration of field theory, psychoanalysis, and the Marxist view of society. The theory advocated a hypothetical-deductive scientific approach to social psychology, in the interest of finding solutions to persistent social problems. Influential in the 1930s and 1940s, Brown's work is currently neglected. In view of recent critical attacks on experimental social psychology, it is sugested that Brown's thought may provide an important bridge between the experimental tradition of American social psychology and the critical social psychology now emerging in Western Europe.
ISSN:0271-0137