Psychology: The socially indifferent science.

Psychology "is a science without social content… . I believe that psychology has been and ought to be mainly interested in the properties and processes of individual organisms… . Psychology… has been so far the science which deals with the abstract, universal, culturally contentless features of behavior which in almost all cases—and surely all the most interesting cases—are socially tagged, but which are analyzed as properties of individual organisms… . I am arguing that the formulations which psychologists have made and ought to continue making do not and need not contain explicit social or cultural terms to satisfy the relevance of psychology for understanding social behavior." From Psyc Abstracts 36:02:2AD32L. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)