Statements on the Scientific View of Positivism in Main-Stream Psychology of the West
Chunlei Liu
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Chunlei Liu
Abstract
The view of science presupposes the development of subjects, there exists the psychological view of science-orientated and humanity-orientated all the time in the history of psychology in western countries. Psychology, science orientated, which is also called positivistic psychology, is the main stream of the west. Its scientific view of positivism dominates the development of psychology, leads to disunity in the history of psychology, the only way to solve is reconstructing scientific view of psychology. The new scientific view should be the view of integration, under such direction, psychology can become a kind of science.
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The view of science presupposes the development of subjects, there exists the psychological view of science-orientated and humanity-orientated all the time in the history of psychology in western countries. Psychology, science orientated, which is also called positivistic psychology, is the main stream of the west. Its scientific view of positivism dominates the development of psychology, leads to disunity in the history of psychology, the only way to solve is reconstructing scientific view of psychology. The new scientific view should be the view of integration, under such direction, psychology can become a kind of science.
Key concepts: Positivism, Humanity, Epistemology, Theoretical psychology, Psychology of science, Cross-cultural psychology, Psychological research, Psychological science