The history of the social sciences has been marked by frequent and
fierce debates on the rules of scientific methodology. Even the
most general criteria agreed upon in the natural sciences are
emphatically disputed in the social sciences. Presenting the
history of psychology in the Netherlands as a case representative
of Western social science, this book examines the divisive nature
of social methodology more closely. The author scrutinizes
published books and articles, as well as archival material and
taped interviews, to sketch a history in which psychologists call
their colleagues "semi-intellectuals who take lack of clarity for
profundity" or accuse them of "undermining respect for men." As to
the question of how such disagreements on the rules of sciences
should be understood, this book contradicts the common picture in
which social scientists only gradually came to understand how their
profession should be "scientifically" practiced. Students and
scholars of the history of science and the history of psychology
will be fascinated by this account.
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