Confessions of a Recently Outed Social Psychologist
The 2024 Cooley-Mead Award Address
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11326232 |
|---|---|
| Authors | B Powell (0000-0001-8854-4501, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 88 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 322-336 |
| Publication date | 2025-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Psychology Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0190-2725 • E-ISSN: 1939-8999 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/01902725251366833 |
| OpenAlex | W4413142949 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 37 |
This address is in the form of five confessions that speak to (1) my relationship with social psychology (“For years, I did not I identify as or feel like a social psychologist), (2) others’ relationship with social psychology (“I am not alone in feeling this way”), (3) social psychology’s relationship with sociology (“I believe that social psychology is undervalued in sociology”), (4) sociology’s relationship with other academic disciplines and the public sphere (“I believe that sociology is undervalued elsewhere”), and (5) strategies from the social psychological toolbox that we can use to reenvision the portrayal of social psychology (“I believe that we can do better”). This address not only speaks to the challenges faced by social psychology but also hints at the promise of social psychology as a vibrant and fundamental area within sociology and as an exemplar for sociology
Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
The Rational Public
Stigma
Class and conformity
Strivings of the Negro People (1897)
The Oxford Handbook of W. E. B. Du Bois
Human nature and the social order
Handbook of the Sociology of Emotions
The Mechanisms of Ethnoracialization and Asian American Support for Race-conscious Admissions
Nature, Nurture, Neither, Nor
“Racism Masked as Safety Concerns”
Localizing Cultural Phenomena by Specifying Social Psychological Mechanisms
Identity Theory and Social Identity Theory
When a Name Gives You Pause
Emotional Expression at Work and at Home
Color-Blind
The Multiple Meanings of Discrimination
Equity, Emotion, and Household Division of Labor Response
The Three Faces of Social Psychology
Culture and Microsociology
Gendered Racial Microaggressions and Black Women’s Sleep Health
What’s in a Label? The Relationship between Feminist Self-Identification and “Feminist” Attitudes among U.S. Women and Men
How Cultural Meanings of Occupations in the U.S. Changed During the Covid-19 Pandemic
The Scholar Denied
Boundary-Work and the Demarcation of Science from Non-Science
Unequal Foundations
Precarious Sexuality
Factors Affecting Public Opinion on the Denial of Healthcare to Transgender Persons
Who Are Feminists and What Do They Believe? The Role of Generations
The Myth Incarnate
Different but Somewhat Similar
Values
Birds of a Feather
Reducing the Joy Deficit in Sociology
Intersectional Complexity in Stereotype Content
Accountability as an Inhabited Institution
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |