Rhoda Unger
Biographic Data
| ID | 4249537 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rhoda Unger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rhoda |
| FAMILY NAME | Unger |
| SIGNATURE | UNGER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Montclair State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Representations
III. Historical significance of Shields’ 1975 essay
This article argues that Shields’ work demonstrated that it is impossible to practice value-free science. And, despite the efforts of many feminist psychologists who have argued that the question of sex differences is someone else’s question, biological theories about the differences between women and men are still popular and influential today. This paper will call attention to four areas of scholarship produced by second-wave feminist psycholog…
Gender, ethnicity, and career trajectories
Woodward (2010) argued that Maria Rickers-Ovsiankina, Eugenia Hanfmann, and Tamara Dembo constituted a group of Jewish emigré psychologists who received substantial help in America from a "Jewish network" of patronage. This comment focuses on the historiographic problems and pitfalls of essentialized ethnic identification. There was no evidence that Maria Rickers-Ovsiankina was a Jew or that Eugenia Hanffman, raised Russian Orthodox, identified h…
Society Very Definitely Needs Our Aid”
The year 2011 marks the 75th anniversary of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) . One of the primary reasons SPSSI was established was the desire, on the part of its founders, to use scientific research for social action and to bring the insights of social science into national‐level debates about social issues. This anniversary affords us the opportunity to examine when, where, why, and how SPSSI has been more and le…
SPSSI Leaders
This study provides a collective biography of Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) 's most recent cohort of leaders and compares their characteristics with those of previous generations of leaders. Unlike previous collective biographies, I use responses to an e‐mail questionnaire from 90 individuals who have been elected to SPSSI office, most since 1986. I examine the social categories to which individuals belong; educatio…
Reclaiming SPSSI 's Sociological Past
Aspects of the life and work of Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI)'s first female president, Marie Jahoda (1907–2001), are examined to help reclaim social psychology's, and SPSSI' s, lost connection to sociology. Throughout her career, Jahoda promoted a nonreductionistic, problem‐focused sociological social psychology that was profoundly influenced by her early interdisciplinary training and by subsequent collaborations …
What We Look For is What We Find
The purpose of this paper is to examine epistemological connections between the words used by psychologists, the way words influence what methodology we use, and how methods influence our beliefs about causality and construct phenomena regarded as psychological "facts." These processes are considered in terms of a personal and historical perspective gained from nearly forty years of studying the psychology of women and gender. This paper focuses …
Feminisms without Borders
Kenneth Lucien Dion (1944-2004)
Obituary
Obituary
Obituary
Integrating Culture
At first glance
Backlash
To demand or not to demand
To demand or not to demand
Representations
Reclaiming SPSSI 's Sociological Past
Aspects of the life and work of Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI)'s first female president, Marie Jahoda (1907–2001), are examined to help reclaim social psychology's, and SPSSI' s, lost connection to sociology. Throughout her career, Jahoda promoted a nonreductionistic, problem‐focused sociological social psychology that was profoundly influenced by her early interdisciplinary training and by subsequent collaborations …
At first glance
SPSSI Leaders
This study provides a collective biography of Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) 's most recent cohort of leaders and compares their characteristics with those of previous generations of leaders. Unlike previous collective biographies, I use responses to an e‐mail questionnaire from 90 individuals who have been elected to SPSSI office, most since 1986. I examine the social categories to which individuals belong; educatio…
III. Historical significance of Shields’ 1975 essay
This article argues that Shields’ work demonstrated that it is impossible to practice value-free science. And, despite the efforts of many feminist psychologists who have argued that the question of sex differences is someone else’s question, biological theories about the differences between women and men are still popular and influential today. This paper will call attention to four areas of scholarship produced by second-wave feminist psycholog…
Society Very Definitely Needs Our Aid”
The year 2011 marks the 75th anniversary of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) . One of the primary reasons SPSSI was established was the desire, on the part of its founders, to use scientific research for social action and to bring the insights of social science into national‐level debates about social issues. This anniversary affords us the opportunity to examine when, where, why, and how SPSSI has been more and le…
Feminisms without Borders
Kenneth Lucien Dion (1944-2004)
To demand or not to demand
To demand or not to demand
Backlash
Integrating Culture
At first glance
Obituary
Obituary
Obituary
Feminisms without Borders
Kenneth Lucien Dion (1944-2004)
What We Look For is What We Find
The purpose of this paper is to examine epistemological connections between the words used by psychologists, the way words influence what methodology we use, and how methods influence our beliefs about causality and construct phenomena regarded as psychological "facts." These processes are considered in terms of a personal and historical perspective gained from nearly forty years of studying the psychology of women and gender. This paper focuses …
Society Very Definitely Needs Our Aid”
The year 2011 marks the 75th anniversary of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) . One of the primary reasons SPSSI was established was the desire, on the part of its founders, to use scientific research for social action and to bring the insights of social science into national‐level debates about social issues. This anniversary affords us the opportunity to examine when, where, why, and how SPSSI has been more and le…
SPSSI Leaders
This study provides a collective biography of Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) 's most recent cohort of leaders and compares their characteristics with those of previous generations of leaders. Unlike previous collective biographies, I use responses to an e‐mail questionnaire from 90 individuals who have been elected to SPSSI office, most since 1986. I examine the social categories to which individuals belong; educatio…
Reclaiming SPSSI 's Sociological Past
Aspects of the life and work of Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI)'s first female president, Marie Jahoda (1907–2001), are examined to help reclaim social psychology's, and SPSSI' s, lost connection to sociology. Throughout her career, Jahoda promoted a nonreductionistic, problem‐focused sociological social psychology that was profoundly influenced by her early interdisciplinary training and by subsequent collaborations …
Gender, ethnicity, and career trajectories
Woodward (2010) argued that Maria Rickers-Ovsiankina, Eugenia Hanfmann, and Tamara Dembo constituted a group of Jewish emigré psychologists who received substantial help in America from a "Jewish network" of patronage. This comment focuses on the historiographic problems and pitfalls of essentialized ethnic identification. There was no evidence that Maria Rickers-Ovsiankina was a Jew or that Eugenia Hanffman, raised Russian Orthodox, identified h…
III. Historical significance of Shields’ 1975 essay
This article argues that Shields’ work demonstrated that it is impossible to practice value-free science. And, despite the efforts of many feminist psychologists who have argued that the question of sex differences is someone else’s question, biological theories about the differences between women and men are still popular and influential today. This paper will call attention to four areas of scholarship produced by second-wave feminist psycholog…
Representations
Psychology (16 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (10 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Psychoanalysis (5 works) · Social Representations and Identity (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works)