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Investigative practice therefore constitutes an area of considerable anxiety within the discipline of psychology. Concern with questions of methodolo… - Kurt Danziger
" "Investigative practice therefore constitutes an area of considerable anxiety within the discipline of psychology. Concern with questions of methodological orthodoxy often takes the place of concern about theoretical orthodoxy when research or its results are discussed and evaluated. These preoccupations with the purity of method frequently deteriorate to a kind of method fetishism or "methodolatry." From this point of view there may be something distinctly subversive about the suggestion that the sphere of methodology is not a realm of pure reason but an area of human social activity governed by mundane circumstances like any other social activity. Nevertheless, the consequences of this suggestion should be explored, for not to do so exposes one to all the risks entailed by a naive and self-deluded style of scientific practice.
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About Kurt Danziger
(born June 3, 1926) is a German psychologist and Emeritus Professor of Psychology at , whose work has focused on the history of psychology, particularly in the 20th century. His innovative contributions to this field have received widespread international recognition.
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