The human experience
Subtitle: description, explanation, and judgment
By: Elizabeth DePoy and Stephen French Gilson.
Contributors: Gilson, Stephen French.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9780765705099; 9780742559394
Subjects: Psychology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-280) and index.
Table of contents: title: And there was theory; title: Explanatory legitimacy; title: Scope of human description; title: Explanations; title: What is legitimacy?; title: Longitudinal foundations; title: Grand longitudinal approaches to describing and explaining human experience and behavior; title: Specific longitudinal descriptions and explanations; title: Environmental foundations; title: Interior environment; title: Exterior environment; title: Categorical foundations; title: Category membership on the basis of interior characteristics; title: Category membership on the basis of exterior characteristics; title: Systems descriptions and explanations; title: Contemporary and emerging theories; title: Longitudinal legitimacy; title: Environmental legitimacy; title: Categorical legitimacy; title: Systems legitimacy; title: Contemporary and emerging legitimacy; title: Putting explanatory legitimacy to work.