The Crisis of the Meritocracy
Before the Second World War, only about 20% of the population went to secondary school and barely 2% to university; today everyone goes to secondary school and half of all young people go to university. How did we get here from there? The Crisis o...
A History of Modern Experimental Psychology
A History of Modern Experimental Psychology
Return from the Natives
Celebrated anthropologist Margaret Mead, who studied sex in Samoa and child-rearing in New Guinea in the 1920s and '30s, was determined to show that anthropology could tackle the psychology of the most complex, modern societies in ways useful for ...
Stories, Scripts, and Scenes
First published in 1984. This book is an expansion of three lectures on schema theory given at the University of Alberta in the fall of 1983 as part of the MacEachran Memorial Lecture Series.
The Foundations of Mind
The Foundations of Mind
From Plunder to Preservation
What was the effect of the British Empire on the cultures and civilisations of the peoples over whom it ruled? This book takes a novel approach to this important and controversial subject by considering the impact of empire on the idea of 'heritag...
