The Southern Society in Retrospect: An Abbreviated History of the First Sixty Years of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, 1904–1964

Harris, Marjorie S.; Alluisi, Earl A.

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“…When Buchner moved to Alabama, he apparently felt isolated (Harris, 1964) because the universities in the South at the turn of the century were still recovering from the Civil War. Buchner began exploring the possibility of establishing a learned society including both philosophers and psychologists, and he received encouragement from many outstanding psychologists of that period (Miner, 1931).…”

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25th anniversary meeting and subsequently was published (Miner, 193 1).In that history, Miner discussed the conditions in southern educational institutions in the first quarter of the 20th century. In addition, he discussed the contributions of the SSPP to southern educational institutions and to the two disciplines. The SSPP had the enhancement of teaching of psychology in the South as one of its early objectives and established a committee on teaching psychology, which is discussed later in this chapter.Miner also stated that the SSPP served to counteract the trend toward specialization in the academic world. Finally, he provided a list of officers of the SSPP from its founding in 1904 until the presentation of the paper in 1930.Ten years later, Miner (1941) presented a second history covering the period from 1931 to 1941, and Balz "traced the history of philosophy in the Society during its 35 years of existence" (Munn, 1941, p. 683). However, in the published version, Balz (1941) discussed the relation between philosophy and psychology but little of the history of philosophy within the SSPP.The most recent published history of the SSPP is one by Harris and Alluisi (1964), which is an abbreviated version of a longer history that Harris (1964), the historian of the SSPP at that time, had written. The published version of the history was "authorized" in that the manuscript was approved by an ad hoc committee of SSPP officers. Harris and Alluisi included some of the information that Miner (1931, 1941) had presented and added information about the SSPP from 1941 until 1964. Furthermore, in the Harris version, there was a brief description of many of the presidential addresses. More recently, Cebik (1983) prepared a history for the 75th anniversary booklet.In 1972, Key Barkley organized a symposium on the history of psychology in the South. Since then, there has been an annual history symposium at the meeting of the SSPP, and that symposium has often contained papers about some aspects of the SSPP. For example, I presented a description of the archives of the SSPP (Pate, 1985) and some information about the academic ancestry of some of the presidents of the SSPP (Pate, 1986(Pate, , 1987. Some of that information is included later in this chapter. FOUNDING AND EARLY MEETINGSAccording to Miner (1931), "few societies can so clearly trace their beginnings to one person" (p. 1). That person was Edward Franklin Buchner, who received a PhD in philosophy from Yale University in 1893. In 1903, he joined the faculty of the University of Alabama as a professor of philosophy and education. Despite those credentials, he was a psychologist who contributed frequently to psychological journals. JAMES L. PATECopyright American Psychological Association. Not for further distribution.'Harris (1964) stated that the date of the founding meeting was February 23, 1904, but in the published abbreviated version of that document (Harris & Alluisi, 1964), the date was reported to be February 24, 1904.

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Separate but equal: School psychology's search for organizational identity

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1993

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The Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology and Francis Cecil Sumner

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In 1939, a psychologist could become a member of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology (SSPP) automatically with the endorsement of two members, payment of dues, and membership in the American Psychological Association (APA). Non-APA members with endorsements and payment of dues had to be voted in by the membership. In 1940, the rules for admission were changed to eliminate the automatic membership for APA members. Francis Cecil Sumner, the first African American PhD in psychology, qualified for SSPP membership as a member of the APA in 1939, but the SSPP’s council delayed his membership and introduced the amendment to its constitution that eliminated Sumner’s route to membership. This article examines the circumstances surrounding council’s actions and the role that Sumner’s application for membership played in it as an example of the role that race and discrimination played in the decision to change the route to SSPP membership for members of the APA.

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The Southern Society in Retrospect: An Abbreviated History of the First Sixty Years of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, 1904–1964

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References 61 publications

The Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology.

The Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology.

Separate but equal: School psychology's search for organizational identity

The Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology and Francis Cecil Sumner

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