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Psychology and Formalisation - Phenomenology, Ethnomethodology and Statistics (Hardcover, New edition)
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Psychology and Formalisation - Phenomenology, Ethnomethodology and Statistics (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: Studies in Social Sciences, Philosophy and History of Ideas, 17
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This book revisits psychology's appropriation of natural scientific
methods. The author argues that, in order to overcome ongoing
methodological debates in psychology, it is necessary to confront
the problem of formalisation contained in the appropriation of
methods of natural science. By doing so, the subject matter of
psychology - the human being - and questions about the meaning of
human existence can be brought to the centre of the discipline.
Drawing on Garfinkel, Sacks, Edwards and Potter, the author sees
ethnomethodologically informed qualitative methods, which stem from
phenomenology, as a possible alternative to statistical methods,
but ultimately finds these methods to be just another method of
formalisation.She returns to Husserlian phenomenology as a way to
critique the centrality of method in psychology and shows that the
adoption of natural scientific methods in psychology is part of the
larger push to formalise and objectify all aspects of human
existence.
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