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Paradigms and the research report: Making what actually happens a heuristic for theory
- Source :
- American Journal of Community Psychology. 19:365-370
- Publication Year :
- 1991
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 1991.
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Abstract
- The contention is that in providing an account of the intervention process beyond the usual parameters of reporting, Weinstein and her colleagues have helped bring to the fore issues in the conduct and reporting of intervention research which are anomalous to most current theories and accounts. Taken seriously, the issues openly discussed could provide a useful step toward reducing the discrepancy between how we carry out interventions and how we say we carry out interventions. Through attempts to incorporate these issues into theory, we increase the verisimilitude of our ideas and develop a more differentiated filter for our community work. If, as Cronbach asserts, “social science is cumulative, not in possessing ever-more refined answers about fixed questions, but in possessing an ever-richer repertoire of questions” (1986, p. 91), accounts such as those provided by Weinstein and her colleagues can indeed serve as a heuristic for theory by telling it like it was.
- Subjects :
- Male
Social psychology (sociology)
Health (social science)
Adolescent
Process (engineering)
Psychological intervention
Social Environment
Filter (software)
Verisimilitude
Humans
Remedial Teaching
Set (psychology)
Applied Psychology
Motivation
Learning Disabilities
Heuristic
Communication
Teaching
Underachievement
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Combined Modality Therapy
Epistemology
Intervention (law)
Set, Psychology
Female
Psychology
Social psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15732770 and 00910562
- Volume :
- 19
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- American Journal of Community Psychology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....baf2e3b789fb064b34674405e61bd034