What does morality have to do with psychology in a value-neutral, postmodern world? According to a provocative new book, everything.
Taking exception with current ideas in the mainstream (including cultural, evolutionary, and neuropsychology) as straying from the discipline's ethical foundations, Psychology as a Moral Science argues that psychological phenomena are inherently moral, and that psychology, as prescriptive and interventive practice, reflects specific moral principles.
The book cites normative moral standards, as far back as Aristotle, that give...
What does morality have to do with psychology in a value-neutral, postmodern world? According to a provocative new book, everything.
Karin Olson's brief, accessible guide to the principles and practices of qualitative interviewing is a welcome addition for students and novice practitioners in a wide array of fields. Interview is the most common method for gaining information in the social realm, so there are a bewildering array of techniques and strategies for conducting them. Olson outlines the various options--from formal to highly unstructured, individual and group--and shows how and when to use each. She takes the researcher through the interview process, from design to report, and addresses key issues such as...
Karin Olson's brief, accessible guide to the principles and practices of qualitative interviewing is a welcome addition for students and novice practi...
Karin Olson's brief, accessible guide to the principles and practices of qualitative interviewing is a welcome addition for students and novice practitioners in a wide array of fields. Interview is the most common method for gaining information in the social realm, so there are a bewildering array of techniques and strategies for conducting them. Olson outlines the various options--from formal to highly unstructured, individual and group--and shows how and when to use each. She takes the researcher through the interview process, from design to report, and addresses key issues such as...
Karin Olson's brief, accessible guide to the principles and practices of qualitative interviewing is a welcome addition for students and novice practi...
This book is a survival guide for students and researchers who would like to conduct a qualitative study with limited resources. Qualitative Inquiry in Everyday Life shows how everyday life materials such as books, television, the internet, the media and everyday conversations and interactions can help us to understand larger social issues.Svend Brinkmann helps readers develop a disciplined and analytic awareness informed by theory, and shows how less can be more in qualitative research. Each chapter introduces theoretical tools to think with, and demonstrates how they can be put to use in...
This book is a survival guide for students and researchers who would like to conduct a qualitative study with limited resources. Qualitative Inquiry i...
Qualitative interviewing has today become one of the most common research methods across the human and social sciences, but it is an approach that comes in different guises. Qualitative Interviewing will help its readers write, represent, understand, and critique qualitative interview research in its many forms as currently practiced. The book begins with a theoretically informed introduction to qualitative interviewing by presenting a variegated landscape of how conversations have been used for knowledge-producing purposes. Particular attention is paid to the complementary positions...
Qualitative interviewing has today become one of the most common research methods across the human and social sciences, but it is an approach that com...
John Dewey was an American psychologist, philosopher, educator, social critic, and political activist. John Dewey: Science for a Changing World addresses Dewey's contemporary relevance; his life and intellectual trajectory; his basic philosophical ideas, with an emphasis on his philosophy of nature; and his educational theory, which has often been misunderstood. In addition, Dewey's pragmatism and pragmatist ethics are discussed, as are some of the criticisms that can be directed at them. Throughout the book, Dewey's ideas are related to the general history of ideas, but there is...
John Dewey was an American psychologist, philosopher, educator, social critic, and political activist. John Dewey: Science for a Changing World...
Today's approaches to the study of the human mind are divided into seemingly opposed camps. On one side we find the neurosciences, with their more or less reductionist research programs, and on the other side we find the cultural and discursive approaches, with their frequent neglect of the material sides of human life. Persons and their Minds seeks to develop an integrative theory of the mind with room for both brain and culture. Brinkmann's remarkable and thought-provoking work is one of the first books to integrate brain research with phenomenology, social practice studies and...
Today's approaches to the study of the human mind are divided into seemingly opposed camps. On one side we find the neurosciences, with their more ...
Philosophies of Qualitative Research helps readers understand, present, and critique the different roles of philosophical paradigms in qualitative research. Author Svend Brinkmann shows how to reflect upon, report, and evaluate the ways in which philosophical positions inform qualitative research as it is currently practiced.
Philosophies of Qualitative Research helps readers understand, present, and critique the different roles of philosophical paradigms in qualitative res...
Self-help gurus, life coaches and business consultants love to tell us that we must strive for constant self-improvement to realize our full potential and become truly happy. But it doesn't seem to work for many of us, life still seems hollow and meaningless.
Self-help gurus, life coaches and business consultants love to tell us that we must strive for constant self-improvement to realize our full potential...
