Ian MacCrone
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Ian Douglas MacCrone (May 7, 1898 – June 11, 1981) was a South African liberal psychologist. He was vice-chancellor at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and worked in the fields of social psychology and race psychology.[1]
Career
MacCrone was a professor of psychology and served as the head of the Psychology Department at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in the mid-1920s. In 1963, MacCrone was appointed as the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Witwatersrand and held this position until 1968.[2] Soon after, MacCrone received an honorary Doctor of Law degree (DPhil HonLLD) from the University of the Witwatersrand in 1969.[3] In addition, MacCrone was the president of the Psychology Society, Johannesburg (PSJ), which was the forerunner of the South African Psychological Association (SAPA), the first South African association for psychologists.[4]
Published work
MacCrone’s work was focused on racial segregation, attitudes and prejudice. His seminal work, Race Attitudes in South Africa: Historical, Experimental, and Psychological, sought to understand the causes of racial prejudice.[5] In this book, MacCrone introduced scales for measuring attitudes and social distances of various South African groups.[6][7] In doing so, MacCrone used three different approaches: historical, experimental and psychological.[8] MacCrone suggested that racial antipathy can be identified through psychoanalysis as the result of motives of the unconscious mind. Thus, MacCrone provided one of the earliest psychoanalytic explanations for the racial conflict that occurred in South Africa.[9] MacCrone’s earlier work, Group Conflicts and Race Prejudice, sought to discuss the impact of race prejudices on group conflicts within the context of a diversity of cultures in South Africa.[10]His lecture, Psychology in Perspective, gives an account of contemporary psychology and the recent developments in the field at the time.[11][12]
References
- ↑ "Ian D MacCrone". NYU Press. Retrieved 2023-10-17.
- ↑ "Former Officers of the University - Wits University". www.wits.ac.za. Retrieved 2023-10-17.
- ↑ "Honorary Degrees - Wits University". www.wits.ac.za. Retrieved 2023-10-17.
- ↑ Long, W (2014). "SAPA, science and society: A debacle revisited". Psychology in Society. 47: 41–58. ISSN 2309-8708.
- ↑ Roos, Neil (2016). "South African History and Subaltern Historiography: Ideas for a Radical History of White Folk". International Review of Social History. 61 (1): 117–150. doi:10.1017/S0020859016000080. ISSN 0020-8590.
- ↑ Mann, Cecil W. (1941). "Review of Race Attitudes in South Africa: Historical, Experimental and Psychological Studies". Psychological Bulletin. 38 (5): 297–298. doi:10.1037/h0049551. ISSN 1939-1455.
- ↑ "Race Attitudes in South Africa. Historical, Experimental and Psychological Studies". International Affairs. 1938-07-01. doi:10.2307/3020031. ISSN 1468-2346.
- ↑ Loram, Charles T.; MacCrone, I. D. (October 1938). "Race Attitudes in South Africa: Historical, Experimental, and Psychological Studies". The American Historical Review. 44 (1): 63. doi:10.2307/1840854.
- ↑ Nicholas, Lionel (2014-08-03). "A history of South African (SA) Psychology". Universitas Psychologica. 13 (5): 1983. doi:10.11144/Javeriana.upsy13-5.hsap.
- ↑ Cox, O. C. (1948-05-01). "Group Conflicts and Race Prejudice. By I. D. MacCrone. Johannesburg: S. A. Institute of Race Relations, 1947. 31 pp. 2s 6d". Social Forces. 26 (4): 485–486. doi:10.2307/2571902. ISSN 0037-7732.
- ↑ Smuts, J. C.; Broom, Robert; Dalton, J. P.; Phillips, John F. V.; Greig, J. Y. T.; Haarhoff, T. J.; Richards, C. S.; Frankel, H. S.; Hoernlé, R. F. A. (2021). Our Changing World-View: Ten Lectures on Recent Movements of Thought in Science, Economics, Education, Literature and Philosophy. Wits University Press. doi:10.18772/22021085553. ISBN 9781776145560.
- ↑ "Our Changing World-View". NYU Press. Retrieved 2023-10-17.
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