From methodology to methods in human psychology

Valsiner Jaan

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Springer, Dordrecht

2017

115 Pages

ISBN 978-3-319-61063-4

SpringerBriefs in Psychology

From methodology to methods in human psychology

Jaan Valsiner

This Brief aims to provide a theoretically innovative introduction to the methodology of the human sciences. It presents a new version of methodology, as a system of mutually linked acts of creating knowledge where both abstract and concrete features of research are intricately intertwined. It shows how the constructions of particular methods that are used in the science of psychology are interdependent with general psychology. This is exemplified as the Methodology Cycle. The need for an emphasis on the MethodologyCycle grows out of the habitual presentation of methods as if they were independent from the assumptions which they are built upon, with the ultimate goal of searching for and creating universal principles. Chapters discuss the Methodology Cycle and its uses in various areas of empirical study in psychological functions.

From Methodology to Methods in Human Psychology will be of interest to psychologists, undergraduate and graduate students, and researchers.

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Valsiner, J. (2017). From methodology to methods in human psychology, Springer, Dordrecht.

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Methodology as foundation for discovery

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