What's Behind the Research?: Discovering Hidden Assumptions in the Behavioral Sciences - Couverture rigide

Slife, Brent D.; Williams, Richard N.

 
9780803958623: What's Behind the Research?: Discovering Hidden Assumptions in the Behavioral Sciences
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0803958625 ISBN 13 : 9780803958623
Editeur : SAGE Publications Inc, 1996

Synopsis

This volume encourages students to engage in critical thinking by exploring the main assumptions upon which behavioral science theories are based and offering some alternatives to these assumptions.The text begins with a review and critique of the major theoretical approaches: psychoanalysis, behaviorism, humanism, cognitivism, eclecticism, structuralism and postmodernism. The authors then discuss the key assumptions underlying these theories - knowing, determinism, reductionism and science. They trace the intellectual history of these assumptions and offer contrasting options. The book concludes by examining ways of coming to terms with some of the inadequacies in the assumptions of the behavioral sciences.

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À propos de l'auteur

Richard N. Williams is founding Director of the Wheatley Institution. From 2001 through 2008, he served as an Associate Academic Vice President for Faculty and Professor in the department of Psychology at Brigham Young University. His specialty areas include the philosophical, theoretical and historical foundations of psychology, with concentration on issues related to human agency, as well the science of psychology and research methods and statistics. Williams has authored, co-authored, or edited numerous journal, articles, and books. He has been a visiting faculty member at Duquesne University and at Georgetown University. He holds an M.S. and Ph.D. from Purdue University in Psychological Science and is a summa cum laude graduate of Brigham Young University. Williams and his wife Camille have 5 children and 18 grandchildren. Click here to see a full professional curriculum vitae.

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Éditeur
SAGE Publications Inc
Date d'édition
1996
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0803958625
ISBN 13 
9780803958623
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
264
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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9780803958630: What's Behind the Research?: Discovering Hidden Assumptions in the Behavioral Sciences

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0803958633 ISBN 13 :  9780803958630
Editeur : SAGE Publications, Inc, 1995
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