Psychology in Social Context: Issues and Debates provides acritical perspective on debates and controversies that have dividedopinion within psychology both past and present.* Explores the history of psychology through examples of classicand contemporary debates that have split the discipline and sparkedchange, including race and IQ, psychology and gender, ethicalissues in psychology, parapsychology and the nature-nurturedebate* Represents a unique approach to studying the nature ofpsychology by combining historical controversies with contemporarydebates within the discipline* Sets out a clear view of psychology as a reflexive humanscience, embedded in and shaped by particular socio-historicalcontexts* Written in an accessible style using a range of pedagogicalfeatures - such as set learning outcomes, self-test questions, andfurther reading suggestions at the end of each chapter