75 Years of Social Science for Social Action
Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on SPSSI's Scholar-Activist Legacy

This issue focuses critical attention on a number of topics (e.g. , he environment, homosexuality, international relations) that have not been taken up in previous historical issues of the journal. .

This issue focuses critical attention on a number of topics (e.g., he environment, homosexuality, international relations) that have not been taken up in previous historical issues of the journal.

INTRODUCTION. "Society Very Definitely Needs Our Aid": Reflecting on SPSSI in History (Alexandra Rutherford, Frances Cherry, and Rhoda Unger). Looking Again at SPSSI: History, Activism, and Advocacy (Martha T. Mednick). SECTION I: GETTING STARTED: WORLD WAR II AND BEYOND. "Education for Democracy": SPSSI and the Study of Morale in World War II (Cathy Faye). Psychologists, Race, and Housing in Postwar America (Wade E. Pickren). Reclaiming SPSSI's Sociological Past: Marie Jahoda and the Immersion Tradition in Social Psychology (Alexandra Rutherford, Rhoda Unger, and Frances Cherry). SECTION II: SCHOLAR-ACTIVIST DEBATES. Value Neutrality and SPSSI: The Quest for Policy, Purity, and Legitimacy (Andrew S. Winston). SPSSI Leaders: Collective Biography and the Dilemma of Value-Laden Action and Value-Neutral Research (Rhoda Unger). The SPSSI Task Force on Sexual Orientation, the Nature of Sex, and the Contours of Activist Science (Michael Pettit). A Wrinkle in Time: Tracing a Legacy of Public Science through Community Self-Surveys and Participatory Action Research (Mar'ia Elena Torre and Michelle Fine). SECTION III: SPSSI'S ONGOING COMMITMENTS: THE THREE P'S. SPSSI and Peace-Building: A Participant's Perspective (Paul R. Kimmel). SPSSI and Racial Research (Thomas F. Pettigrew). SPSSI and Poverty: Reflections at Seventy-Five (Heather E. Bullock, Bernice Lott, and Shirley V. Truong). SECTION IV: FROM SPSSI'S PAST INTO ITS FUTURE: WORLD COMMUNITIES AND THE ENVIRONMENT. "Cautious Courage": SPSSI's Connections and Reconnections at the United Nations (Frances Cherry, Holly Ellingwood, and Gisell Castillo). Foreground and Background: Environment as Site and Social Issue (Susan Opotow and Jen Gieseking). SPSSI's Living Past (James H. Capshew). SECTION V: 2009 SPSSI PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS. Introduction to Susan Opotow's SPSSI Presidential Address (Daniel Perlman). How This Was Possible: Interpreting the Holocaust (Susan Opotow).