O konstruktywizmie, różnicach indywidualnych i prawach ogólnych

• Authors: Maria Lewicka

Title variants

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ON CONSTRUCTIVISM, INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES AND UNIVERSAL LAWS

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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Three claims are presented and argued for: (1) that universal laws are impossible within constructivistic (humanistic) approaches since the very nature of humanistic explanations (intentional, teleological) precludes possibilities of objective comparisons between investigated targets, (2) that it is unproductive to look for universal attributes of study objects (e.g., attributes common to all people and cultures) since differences seem to be the rule rather than exception in the social sciences, (3) that it is possible to speak of universal mechanisms if one assumes that the formulated laws have an interactive nature and that one of the factors (the independent variable) is a theoretically meaningful dimension that differentiates the compared people or cultures.

Keywords

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ATTRIBUTE UNIVERSALITY; CONSTRUCTIVISM; TYPES OF EXPLANATIONS; UNIVERSALITY OF LAWS

• Publisher: Polskie Stowarzyszenie Psychologii Społecznej, Warszawa, Poland
• Journal: Psychologia Społeczna
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 2
• Issue: 3-4(5)
• Pages: 271-275

Contributors

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Maria Lewicka

• Wydział Psychologii, Uniwersytet Warszawski, ul. Stawki 5/7, 00-183 Warszawa, Poland