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Marie Jahoda was an Austrian psychologist who was one of the psychologists to work at the level of a community. She worked with the unemployed community of Marienthal just outside Vienna in Austria an an account was first published in the early 1930s. This work was subsequently presented by (Lazarsfeld, 1932; Lazarsfeld-Jahoda and Zeisel, 1933 / Jahoda, Lazarsfeld and Zeisel, 1972) and was later described by Jahoda (1983)

Marie Jahoda subsequently ran a similar project in Monmouthshire, Wales (Fryer, 1987). She went on to become the first woman professor at Sussex University and promoted a form of social psychology closely related to what is now community psychology

References

  • Fryer, D. (1987). Monmouthshire and Marienthal: Sociographies of two unemployed communities. In D. Fryer and P. Ullah (Eds.) Unemployed People: Social and Psychological Perspectives (pp. 74-93). Milton Keynes: Open University Press.
  • Jahoda, M. (1983). The emergence of social psychology in Vienna: An exercise in long-term memory. British Journal of Social Psychology, 22, 342-349.
  • Jahoda, M., Lazarsfeld, P.F. & Zeisel, H. (1972). Marienthal: The Sociography of an Unemployed Community. London: Tavistock.
  • Lazarsfeld, P. F. (1932). An unemployed village. Character and Personality, 1, 147-151.
  • Lazarsfeld-Jahoda, M. & Zeisel, H. (1933). Die Arbeitslosen von Marienthal. Leipzig : Hirzel.
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