What's Behind the Research?

Discovering Hidden Assumptions in the Behavioral Sciences

Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Education & Teaching, Study Skills, Fiction & Literature, Essays & Letters, Essays, Poetry
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Author: Dr. Richard N. Williams, Dr. Brent D. Slife ISBN: 9781506319056
Publisher: SAGE Publications Publication: August 3, 1995
Imprint: SAGE Publications, Inc Language: English
Author: Dr. Richard N. Williams, Dr. Brent D. Slife
ISBN: 9781506319056
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Publication: August 3, 1995
Imprint: SAGE Publications, Inc
Language: English

This volume encourages students to engage in critical thinking by exploring the main assumptions upon which behavioral science theories are based and offering some alternatives to these assumptions. The text begins with a review and critique of the major theoretical approaches: psychoanalysis, behaviorism, humanism, cognitivism, eclecticism, structuralism and postmodernism. The authors then discuss the key assumptions underlying these theories - knowing, determinism, reductionism and science. They trace the intellectual history of these assumptions and offer contrasting options. The book concludes by examining ways of coming to terms with some of the inadequacies in the assumptions of the behavioral sciences.

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This volume encourages students to engage in critical thinking by exploring the main assumptions upon which behavioral science theories are based and offering some alternatives to these assumptions. The text begins with a review and critique of the major theoretical approaches: psychoanalysis, behaviorism, humanism, cognitivism, eclecticism, structuralism and postmodernism. The authors then discuss the key assumptions underlying these theories - knowing, determinism, reductionism and science. They trace the intellectual history of these assumptions and offer contrasting options. The book concludes by examining ways of coming to terms with some of the inadequacies in the assumptions of the behavioral sciences.

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