Contextualism in Psychological Research?
Subtitle: A Critical Review
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc; Sage
Published: July 16, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9780761909989
Subjects: Research methods: general; Psychology; Mental Health; Research & Methodology; Psychology & Psychiatry / General; Context effects (Psychology); Relativity
Description: "In Contextualism in Psychological Research?, the authors explore the assets of contextualism (such as in discovering hypotheses) as well as its limitations. They then compare contextualism, modified contextualism, and mechanism as approaches to doing science, and they examine their merits in studying closed versus open systems. Aimed at encouraging reasoned dialogue between mainstream psychologists and contextualists, this thought-provoking book is a must for every behavioral scientist."--BOOK JACKET.