PSY450H1 Chapter 21: psy450- chapt 21 richards and benjam.doc
Document Summary
Importance of the topic and its strange neglect. Little historical attention paid to funding and employers" parts in psychology. Top 10: individual private income, individual clients, private institutions (charities), public academic agencies (medical research council), private academic agencies, medical institutions, government agencies, academic institutions, learned/professional societies, publishers and media. Effects of funding: access to resources & scale of project, theoretical autonomy of psychologist, control over research agenda, level of accountability of psychologist, possibilities of radicalism and critique of established wisdom, public visibility. Largest philanthropic organization ever created was initially set up to research something other than what it ended up researching. Example of keppel"s project on racial education research becoming more about cultivating anti-racist attitudes which was radical at the time. Major source of psychological research funding for 30 years military funded. Access to resources was abundant, accountability was high but autonomy of researchers and possibility of radicalism were low.
