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Part 1: Topic and Outline (due at the end of Module 5)
You have been examining the liberal arts disciplines throughout this course. You have also wrestled with complex ethical dilemmas, as well as issues and concerns around diversity and communication. All of these activities have required you to apply your critical thinking skills. In Essay 3 you will have an opportunity to explore a particular liberal arts discipline and examine the history of how that discipline interacts with diverse peoples, cultures, and groups.
Select one discipline:
- Psychology
Outline Requirements:
- Construct a title, proposal, research question, and short outline around your selected discipline and the following statement: “The discipline of ZZZ has struggled with the ethical and fair treatment of people from diverse backgrounds and women entering or working in this field since it was founded.”
- Clearly identify the liberal arts discipline of your choice.
- Devise a clear precise research question around the topic of fair and equitable treatment for a specific group, such as women, racial or ethnic groups, different cultures, etc. within this disciplinary field. Not all disciplines will cover all groups, but most will cover at least 2 or 3.
- Your outline should include:
- Introduction
- Historical data
- Today’s data
- Change over time
- Be sure you examine the issues of minorities and women. (Your discipline may also include specific religious groups who were ostracized.)
- Compare the discipline’s progress to others; how does it compare? What is the social context? (Ex: The civil rights movement of the 1960s had a huge impact on society, but what was the impact on the discipline or field? Think about baseball and Jackie Robinson.)
- YOUR analysis and examination of possible solutions you have found, as well as your own ideas to build your conclusion.
- None of these components should be written in paragraph or essay form; you should just provide core ideas. Bullet-points are fine. You haven’t got all the facts yet, just show that you know where you will be going.
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Select one discipline:
• Psychology
Please include the following in your essay:
- Start with the history of your chosen discipline, when and where was it founded and who were the “founding fathers.”
- Place this in a historical context, for example: “ZZZ began as a scholarly discipline in 16th century Europe. At this time, most women were not allowed to attend college and further their education. People in Africa and Asia were making discoveries in this field but were not recognized or considered by the European founders of the discipline.” (Give examples of overlooked or ostracized individuals to support any claims.)
- Consider how advances in social justice and ethical treatment have helped your discipline to improve its treatment of women and minorities over time, or has it? (Be sure to use up-to-date research. Check the dates on your sources!)
- Discuss whether any of the promises made about equality and opportunity for women and minorities are actually being fulfilled and why or why not. (Be specific: what is being done, and is it working?)
- Include any other factors that may be at play here (financial, political, colonialism, nationalism, etc.).
- Examine the facts in relation to the factors at play and use this understanding to build a logical and informed conclusion. Have you found any solutions in your research for the issue? If so, include them in your discussion/conclusion, along with your own ideas about how this discipline can and/or cannot overcome its historic under representation of women and minorities.
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Running head: THE EVOLUTION OF THE FIELD OF PSYCHOLOGY
The Evolution of Psychology in Embracing Diversity
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THE EVOLUTION OF THE FIELD OF PSYCHOLOGY
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M6A1: The discipline of psychology has struggled with the ethical and fair treatment of
people from diverse backgrounds and women entering or working in this field since it was
founded.
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History of Psychology
The field of psychology is an academic area that explores the functioning of mental
functions and behaviors in human beings. Early philosophy started between 600 and 300 BC
when Greek philosophers such as Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle discussed issues such as mental
wellbeing, rationality, knowledge, and motivation. Later on the 17th century Rene Descartes a
French philosopher introduced the idea of dualism while arguing that the human mind and body
operated as separate functional entities that interacted to ensure a rational being (The Evolution
of Psychology, 2014). Wilhelm Wundt and William James were considered to be the real
founders of psychology as a science and an academic discipline. This is because In 1879
Wilhelm Wundt initiated the first laboratory that was dedicated to conducting psychological
research and thus was referred to as the first psychologist. Later in the 19th century,
functionalism was founded by William James and thus it provided an alternative explanation of
mental workings and human behavior to the theory of structuralism that was discovered by
Wundt.
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The historical context
Psychology became a fully-fledged research area in the early and late 19th century. Most
of the psychologists were white male as women faced great hurdles and discrimination. An
example is Mary Ainsworth who was a developmental psychologist who was one of the pioneers
THE EVOLUTION OF THE FIELD OF PSYCHOLOGY
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in analyzing the psychology of childhood attachment. The growth of women in the field of
psychology was accelerated in the early 70s by the women movement. While in the 60s women
accounted for 17.5% of doctoral degrees, the number grew substantially in the year 2000 to
66.6% according to the woman's programs office. Furthermore, a 1946 study by the APA
discovered that out of 2672 doctoral level graduates, 24 % were women (Psychology's Diversity
Problem, 2016). This sh...
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