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use nomothetic or idiographic approaches is most sharply felt in the social sciences, whose subject are unique individuals (idiographic perspective), but...

pp. 46–66 Molenaar, P.C. (2004). "A manifesto on psychology as idiographic science: Bringing the person back into scientific psychology, this time forever"...

Windelband coined the terms idiographic for a descriptive study of the individual nature of phenomena, and nomothetic for sciences that aim to defthe generalizing...

Social science is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among individuals within those societies. The...

other way around. Explanations in social theories can be idiographic or nomothetic. An idiographic approach to an explanation is one where the scientists...

intuitionism, laboratory investigations versus field studies, nomothetic versus idiographic explanations, and elementism versus holism (Simonton, 2000). The founding...

considered physics a perfect example of a nomothetic science, and history, an idiographic science. Moreover, he argued that each approach has its origin...

Criticism of science addresses problems within science in order to improve science as a whole and its role in society. Criticisms come from philosophy...

The relationship between religion and science involves discussions that interconnect the study of the natural world, history, philosophy, and theology...

approach in the philosophy of science, describing the scope of the fields now collectively called the behavioral sciences; this approach dominated the...

In the field of clinical human sciences, an idiographic image is the representation of a result which has been obtained thanks to a study or research method...

In science, objectivity refers to attempts to do higher quality research by eliminating personal biases, emotions, and false beliefs, while focusing mainly...

experimentally discredited. It is not the same as junk science. The demarcation between science and pseudoscience has scientific, philosophical, and political...

The science wars were a series of scholarly and public discussions in the 1990s over the social place of science in making authoritative claims about the...

and etic Humanistic sociology Humanistic coefficient Nomothetic and idiographic Reflexivity (social theory) "Verstehen: The Sociology of Max Weber"....

analysis (IPA) is a qualitative form of psychology research. IPA has an idiographic focus, which means that instead of producing generalization findings...

criteria: The basic approach used by a scientific discipline, either idiographic (descriptive) or nomothetic (predictive), as proposed by Wilhelm Windelband;...

The unity of science is a thesis in philosophy of science that says that all the sciences form a unified whole. The variants of the thesis can be classified...

inevitable coming of social science. Observing the circular dependence of theory and observation in science, and classifying the sciences in this way, Comte may...

editors of the IAP Yearbook of Idiographic Science (since 2008) 1995 – Alexander von Humboldt Award for research in social sciences 1995–1997 – Senior Fulbright...