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BRIEF HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGY IN SOUTH AFRICA

Reading:
 Van Ommen, C. & Painter, D. (2008) (Eds). Interiors: a history of
psychology in South Africa. Cape Town: University of South Africa
Press.

BEGINNINGS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES IN SOUTH AFRICA

 Custodialism
- Late 19th/early 20th century
 Interventionism (1920s)
- Appointment of psychologists
- Standardisation of intelligence tests
 Overarching spirit of scientific racism
- Hierarchy of races (SAAAA - 1920)
- Justification for segregation


WHY SEGREGATION?
The ‘poor white’ problem

 concentration camps
 white landlessness
 Farmer debt/bankruptcy
 cheap black labour

- Fear of miscegenation
- Overturning of the existing racial order

Study into “poor white’ problem

 E.G. Malherbe calls for an interdisciplinary
 Carnegie Corp. set aside funds (1927)
 ‘poor white’


 recommendations included:
- Job reservation
- Segregation in the workplace

Based on (rigged) norms // Boston Naming Test

 Psychology proved its usefulness
 Psychology served racial capitalism
(in this case, to screw people over)

OTHER MAJOR CONTRIBUTIONS




Muya Koloko PSY1004F

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