Beyond individual and group differences : human individuality, scientific psychology, and William Stern's critical personalism / James T. Lamiell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lamiell, James T.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychology--History--20th century.

Psychology.

History.

Psychology--History--19th century.

Stern, William, 1871-1938.

Stern, William.

Physical Description:

xxii, 331 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, [2003]

Summary:

Beyond Individual and Group Differences: Human Individuality, Scientific Psychology, and William Stern's Critical Personalism examines the history of psychology's effort to come to terms with human individuality, from the time of Wundt to present day. With a primary emphasis on the contributions of German psychologist William Stern, this book generates a wider appreciation for Stern's perspective on human individuality and for the proper place of personalitic thinking within scientific psychology. The author presents an alternative approach to the logical positivism that permeates traditional psychological thought and methodology making this an innovative, ground-breaking work.

Beyond Individual and Group Differences is a dynamic book for academics and scholars in the areas of personality psychology, individual differences, and the history of psychology.

Contents:

Introduction: a lost star

Part I: Historical beginnings

The problem of individuality and the birth of a "differential" psychology

The narrowing of perspective in the proliferation of standardized testing and correlational research

The entrenchment of a "common trait" perspective on human individuality

Part II : Statistical thinking in the post-wundtian restructuring of scientific psychology

The emergence of a "neo-galtonian" framework for psychological research : a historical sketch

Contemporary "nomotheticism" within the neo-galtonian framework : a methodological primer

Contemporary "nomotheticism" in critical perspective

Part III: Rethinking the problem

An introduction to critical personalism

Some models of personalistic inquiry in contemporary psychology

Our differences aside : persons, things, individuality, and community.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-318) and indexes.

ISBN:

0761921729

OCLC:

52133156