The Contemporary Appraisal of an Old Problem

Abstract

Originally published in Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 1961, Vol 6(6), 195-196. Comments on L. L. Bernard's review (see record 2006-06023-001) of Floyd Henry Allport's book Social Psychology (1924). Commentator shall here re examine review, the question raised by his earlier concern with the “group fallacy” and by his insistence that collective personification and psychological reification, as used by social scientists, were illegitimate and baneful practices. Reviewer attributed the difficulty to the relatively undeveloped state of terminology that had led sociologists to apply psychological (individual) terms in the description of “uniformities of behavior” that existed in “groups as wholes.” He implied that as soon as some “common ground” between individual and social terminologies was found the difficulty would disappear. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

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