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1 online resource |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; BRIEF CONTENTS; CONTENTS; Preface; Acknowledgments; About the Author; PART I Thinking and Reflecting; 1 Disciplinary Thinking: From Anthropology to Psychology; Introduction; Cultural and Social Anthropology; The Main Theories of Culture; Psychological and Cognitive Anthropology; Cross-Cultural Psychology; Definition; Understanding of Culture; Cultural Psychology; Indigenous Psychology; Summary; Conclusion; Questions; Glossary; Recommended Reading; References; 2 Theoretical Thinking: Four Perspectives in Studying Psychology in Sociocultural Contexts; Introduction |
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Theoretical ThinkingThe Physical Science Perspective; Understanding of Culture; Understanding the Nature of Psychological Functioning; Methodology and Methods of Research; The Main Disciplines; The Biological Science Perspective; The Sociocultural Sciences Perspective; Methodology and Methods; The Agentic-Interpretive Perspective; Theory of Cultural Models; The Main Forms of Doing Research; Conclusion; Questions; Glossary; Recommended Reading; References; 3 Philosophical Thinking: Induction, Deduction, and Positivism; Introduction; The Ultimate Goals and Challenges of Scientific Research |
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Two Main Constituents of Philosophical Thinking About ResearchInduction and Deduction; Radical Empiricism, Enumerative Induction, and the Deductive-Nomological Mode of Inference as the Basis of the Positivist Paradigm; Conclusion; Questions; Glossary; Recommended Reading; References; 4 Philosophical Thinking: Abduction, Retroduction, Interpretivism, and Realism; Introduction; The Abductive and Retroductive Modes of Inference; Charles Peirce and the Abductive/Retroductive Modes of Inference; The Abductive Mode of Inference and the Interpretivist Paradigm |
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A Brief History of the Antipositivist ReactionInvestigation of Meaning, Act of Interpretation, and the Abductive Mode of Inference; Interpretation and Understanding; Problems and Controversies with the Interpretivist Paradigm; Summary of Interpretivism; The Retroductive Mode of Inference and the Realist Paradigm; History of the Realism Paradigm; The Main Features of the Retroductive Mode of Inference; How Can the Results of Positivist and Interpretivist Studies be Used by Realist Researchers?; Procedures and Techniques for Facilitating Retroductive Inferences; Summary of Realism |
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Critique of the Realist ParadigmConclusion; Questions; Glossary; Recommended Reading for Interpretivism; Recommended Reading for Realism; References; PART II Planning Research; 5 Research Problem, Purposes, and Research Questions; Introduction : Formulating a Research Problem; Importance of Problematization; Theoretical and Applied Problems; How to Formulate a Research Problem: The Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis Logic; Research Purposes; The Descriptive Purpose; The Explanatory Purpose; Prediction and Explanation: Is Prediction a Legitimate Purpose of Research?; Formulating Research Questions |
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Print version record |
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Ethnopsychology -- Methodology
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Cross-cultural studies -- Methodology
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Life Stages -- General.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Developmental -- General.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Developmental -- Lifespan Development.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- General.
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Ethnopsychology -- Methodology
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1317666100 |
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9781317666103 |
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9781317666097 |
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1317666097 |
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