What′s Behind the Research?: Discovering Hidden Assumptions in the Behavioral Sciences

What′s Behind the Research?: Discovering Hidden Assumptions in 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.

Hardcover: 264 pages

Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc; 1 edition (August 4 1995)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 9780803958623

ISBN-13: 978-0803958623

ASIN: 0803958625

Product Dimensions: 6.2 x 0.8 x 9.5 inches

Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces

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