?A coherent datum of perception?: Gordon Allport, Floyd Allport, and the politics of ?personality?

How social was personality? The Allports' ?connection? of social and personality psychology

“…Although his behavioristic language and his emphasis on meas-9. urement differed from the approaches of his predecessors (see Nicholson, 2000, on Floyd Allport's view of personality), he was clearly not the first social psychologist to fuse personality and social psychology. 10.…”

“…(F. H. Allport & G. W. Allport, 1921, p. 7) Gordon Allport, however, adopted a different view of personality, and like his emphasis on "pure individuality" (see Nicholson, 2000), his efforts to establish a separate field of personality reflected his exposure to the "psychology of personality" in Germany. .…”

A critical gaze and wistful glance atHandbook histories of social psychology: Did the successive accounts by Gordon Allport and successors historiographically succeed?

“…Although often labeled as a personality theorist, his "chief intellectual love," Allport pointed out that "perhaps half of my research and writing has dealt with more general topics in social psychology" (Allport, 1967a, p. 395). See Barenbaum (2000) on the overlap between Allport's thinking in social and personality psychology, quite evident in his definition of social psychology, and Nicholson (2000). 13.…”

“…Beginning around World War I, Gordon Allport was largely present, and professionally active, during much of the period when social psychology was becoming defined in North America, and elsewhere, and institutionalized as a field (see Barenbaum, 2000;Cherry, 2000;Chung, 2000;Danziger, 2000;Greenwood, 2000;Nicholson, 2000;Parkovnick, 2000). Prior to his death in 1967, he had monitored the methodological changes and the reactions of social psychology to the rising tide of experimentation.…”

“…For discussions of psychologistic, methodological, political, and moralistic individualisms within social psychology, seeLubek, 1993b;Barenbaum, 2000;Chung, 2000;Danziger, 2000;Greenwood, 2000;Nicholson, 2000;Parkovnick, 2000. …”