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Psychology and Formalisation: Phenomenology, Ethnomethodology and Statistics

Psychology and Formalisation: Phenomenology, Ethnomethodology and Statistics

Williams, Anita
Rychard, Andrzej

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Social Sciences, Philosophy and History of Ideas, Book 17

PhilosophyGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 3631726112
ISBN13: 9783631726112
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
Published: Jul 31 2017
Pages: 222
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.30
Language: English

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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