Selfless: A Psychologist's Journey through Identity and Social Class

Name: Selfless: A Psychologist's Journey through Identity and Social Class
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Selfless: A Psychologist's Journey through Identity and Social ClassAuthor(s): Geoffrey Beattie\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367629762, 978-0367629762\nSynopsis\nSelfless is a memoir, reflecting on identity, social class, mobility, education, and on psychology itself; how psychology as a discipline is conducted, how it prioritises objects of study, how it uncovers psychological truths about the world.\n\nGeoffrey Beattie takes the reader on a journey through his early life in working-class Belfast, his [url] at Trinity College Cambridge and subsequent academic and professional career, to explore fundamental issues within psychology about social class and social identity. Beattie discusses the difficulties inherent in this process of education and change, and how social background affects how you view academic work and the subject matter of ones discipline. This book movingly details a life and how it is chang.