Comment: Social Psychology as the End of the Rainbow.

This article comments on a manuscript appearing in the October 1970 issue of the social science journal "The Sociological Quarterly" regarding the field of social psychology. The author asserts that the said article contains some conflicting attitudes towards social science studies. Throughout the years, the field of sociology has branched into different disciplines, namely the phenomenological revolt, the development of the symbolic interactionist school and the discipline of ethnomethodology. Sociologists generally do not consider phenomenology as a science but only as a starting point. Phenomenology was developed as a reaction to and in part a rejection of natural social science and technology. According to the manuscript's author, Professor Irwin Deutscher, social psychological theory can provide a view of human nature, a view that people can be, that is liberating.