Explanation and Experiment in Social Psychological Science

Explanation and Experiment in Social Psychological Science
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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages : 370
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ISBN-10 : 9781461388012
ISBN-13 : 1461388015
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Book Synopsis Explanation and Experiment in Social Psychological Science by : John D. Greenwood

Download or read book Explanation and Experiment in Social Psychological Science written by John D. Greenwood and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about explanation and experiment in a science of human action. It aims to provide a philosophy of social psychological science that both embodies sound principles of scientific reasoning and is sensitive to the social psychological dimensions of human action. The guiding principle of this book is the belief that the logical forms of causal explanation and experimental evaluation can be ef fectively employed in the scientific analysis of meaningful human action. According to most accounts, social psychological science has been in a more or less constant state of crisis for the past decades, having been subject to a host of criticisms on moral, political, methodological, and philosophical grounds. Many of these critiques have been directed against the still dominant conception of social psychological enquiry as a causal and objective scientific discipline that is closely analogous to (if not to be identified as a branch ot) the natural sciences. Thus, many of the most vigorous debates have concerned the nature of explanation and the utility of experimentation in a social psychological discipline.


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