(Very Tentative) Semester Schedule

Psychology and Society
in Critical Perspective

Fall 2009 Seminar
York University, Toronto

Week	Topic	Relevant Fox Publications	Primary Texts	Possible Alternate Texts	Relevant Texts on Reserve
1 Sep 10	Purpose & Process
	VALUES, CHOICES, AND POWER
2 Sep 15		2009 Website FAQ 2010 Critical & Radical Psychology	Jensen		Fox, Prilleltensky, & Austin
Sep 17	*Resolve Course Options*	2006 Levels of Analysis in Student Motivation 1984 Alternative Perspectives on the Pressure to Publish
3 Sep 22	Origins & Trends - Autonomy & Community	1985 Psychology, Ideology, Utopia, & the Commons		Sahlins	Hyde
Sept 24	*Term Project Thoughts*
4 Sep 29	Family, Friends, Community			Barnett & Rivers	Barrett & McIntosh
Oct 1
5 Oct 6	Anarchist Hypotheses *Term Project Topic Question*		Gordon	Graeber 2007	Graeber 2004
Oct 8
Reading Week - no class
	INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT
6 Oct 20	Psychology & the Status Quo	1993 Psychological Jurisprudence & Radical Social Change 1996 (w Prilleltensky) The Inescapable Nature of Politics in Psychology			Herman
Oct 22
7 Oct 27	*Term Project Presentations Begin*	2009 (w Prilleltensky & Austin) Critical Psychology for Social Justice: Concerns & Dilemmas 2007 Five Social Psychology Essentials	Cherry	Parker	Sloan Sloan
Oct 29
8 Nov 3	Education & Academia	1998 (w Sakolsky) From "Radical University" to Handmaiden of the Corporate State 2009 Academic Objectivity, Political Neutrality, & Other Barriers to Israeli-Palestinian Reconciliation			Schmidt
Nov 5
9 Nov 10	Law, Legitimacy, Justice	1999 Psycholegal Scholarship’s Contribution to False Consciousness About Injustice 1993 The Autonomy– Community Balance & the Equity-Law Distinction: Anarchy’s Task for Psychological Jurisprudence 1988 Governmental Ideology & Bureaucratic Reality in Mental Disability Evaluation		Black 1980	Black 1989 Stone Davis
Nov 12
10 Nov 17	Corporations & Power	1996 The Law Says Corporations are Persons, but Psychology Knows Better	Coleman
Nov 19
11 Nov 24
Nov 26
	PROSPECTS & PATHS FOR MUTUALITY & LIBERATION
12 Dec 1		2010 Towards Transformative Social Interventions 1991 Social Science’s Limited Role in Resolving Psycholegal Social Problems			Benello Sakolsky
Dec 3	*Term Project Due*
13 Dec 8	Onward