75 Years of Social Science for Social Action: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on SPSSIs 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. 

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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).