1st Edition

Self-Observation in the Social Sciences

By Joshua W. Clegg Copyright 2013
312 Pages
by Routledge

310 Pages
by Routledge

308 Pages
by Routledge

Notwithstanding the mythical demise of "introspection," self-observation has always been an integral aspect of the social sciences. In the century following the "behavioral revolution," psychology has seen a reduction not so much in the frequency as in the rigor with which self-observation is practiced. A great deal of self-observation has been renamed or obscured (as, for example,... Read more
I: Introduction; 1: Developing an Adequate Theory of Self-Observation; II: The History of Scientific Self-Observation; 2: The History of Introspection Revisited; 3: A Brief History of Self-Report in American Psychology; 4: Introspection and the Myth of Methodological Behaviorism; III: Contemporary Self-Observation; 5: Language in Self-Observation; 6: Confronting the Challenges of Observing Inner Experience; 7: Multimodal Introspection Theory; IV: Self-Observation in the Phenomenological Traditions; 8: A Conceptual History of Self-Observation in the Phenomenological Tradition; 9: A Phenomenologically Informed Theory of Self-Observation; 10: The Practice of Self-Observation in the Phenomenological Traditions; V: Self-Observation in the Narrative Traditions; 11: A Practice of Self-Observation in Narrative Psychology; 12: Self-Observation Theory in the Narrative Tradition; 13: Self-Observation in Ethnographic Writing; VI: Conclusions; 14: The Inferential Context of Self-Observation

Biography

Joshua W. Clegg