1st Edition
The Observation of Human Systems Lessons from the History of Anti-reductionistic Empirical Psychology
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Routledge
190 Pages
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Routledge
312 Pages
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Routledge
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Contemporary mainstream psychology has moved toward methodological specificity bounded by instrumental experimentalism. However, this institutional reduction of sanctioned methods has not been fully embraced by all social scientists, nor even by all experimental psychologists. The social sciences are rife with examples of practicing empirical scientists disaffected with the reductionism and... Read more
1: The Problems of Reductionism in the Social Sciences; 2: Sociocultural Paradigm; 3: Creating the Future:Vygotsky as an Experimenter; 4: Baldwin’s Quest:A Universal Logic of Development; 5: Ecological Psychology’s Struggle to Study Perception at the Appropriate Level of Analysis:Examining the Past, Guessing the Future; 6: Kurt Lewin’s Contribution to the Methodology of Psychology:From Past to Future Skipping the Present; 7: A Unifi ed Topological Approach to Umwelts and Life Spaces Part II: Constructing Life Spaces from an Umwelt; 8: Anti-Reductionistic Empiricism in Contemporary Psychological Research; 9: Considering the Foundations for a Holistic Empirical Psychology
Biography
Joshua W. Clegg
