Is multicultural psychology ascientific? / by Ana Mari Cauce.

Format:

Video

Author/Creator:

Cauce, Ana Mari., Author.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cultural pluralism.

Minorities.

Multiculturalism.

Psychology.

Race.

Research.

Science.

Genre:

Lectures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (52 min.)

Place of Publication:

Seattle, WA : Microtraining Associates, 2011.

Language Note:

In English.

Original language in English.

Summary:

As research psychologists have yearned for the status and respect more often accorded to those in disciplines characterized by precise measurements and tight methodological controls, certain ways of knowing have come to be viewed as more or less "scientific". This has resulted in a privileging of the methods of science over the goals of science. That is, we have too often cared more over "how" we study individual than "why" we study them. Multicultural psychology has, in large part, emerged out of a desire to re-focus our attentions back to the original goals of scientific psychology, which include not only control, but also description, understanding, and prediction. In this sense, multicultural psychology does not so much reject science, as it embraces it more fully than the narrow "scientism" that came to dominate the field in the late twentieth century. For multicultural psychology to emerge as a mature field, we don't need less science, but more science.

Notes:

Previously published as DVD.

Title from resource description page (viewed Apr. 6, 2012).

OCLC:

796933868