Farewell to variables

"This book presents a novel perspective on psychology's methodology-moving it from quantification as a given imperative to science-philosophical look at phenomena-data relationship. The idea for this volume emerged from inquiries into the history of psychology of the 18th-19th centuries wh...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Valsiner, Jaan (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., [2023]
SeriesUnifying science, culture and society
Subjects
Psychology > Methodology.
Psychology > Research.
Psychology > Research & Methodology.
Psychological methodology.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806602155
DOI10.1108/9798887301891
Physical Description1 online resource (240 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Series editor's preface : about regression and progress, or the problem with pars pro toto / Dominik Stefan Mihalits
  • The mentality of a controllable world : why variables were needed / Jaan Valsiner
  • Variables as obstacles to psychological science : finding humanness beneath, between and beyond conventional categories / Nandita Chaudhary, Mila Tuli, and Punya Pillai
  • A psychology of the ordinary : a first theoretical sketch / Bo Allese Christensen
  • Don't mind the variables / Svend Brinkmann
  • The hidden assumptions of variable-based social science / Henrik Skaug Soetra
  • Farewell to variables in studies of developmental psychology : notes on a critical and conceptual debate / Julio Cesar Ossa and Jean Nikola Cudina
  • No variables in classroom : understanding learning by a qualitative analytical tool / Joao Roberto Ratis Tenorio da Silva
  • Mind is movement : we need more than static representations to understand it / Raffaele De Luca Picione and Sergio Salvatore
  • Psychology between qualitative and quantitative phenomena : on the different strati of introspection / Natalie Rodax
  • New perspectives in ecosystemic psychology : developmental mereotopology / Luca Tateo and Giuseppina Marsico
  • Sayonara variable, konnichiwa equifinality point : semiotic cultural psychology teaches us what colorful really means / Tatsuya Sato, Yuko Yasuda, Misato Fukuyama, Daina Ishii, Ayae Kido, Yasuhiro Omi, and Yoshiyuki Watanabe
  • General conclusion : a respectful farewell to the illusion of quantified objectivity / Jaan Valsiner.

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