Volume 4, No. 2 – May 2003

Qualitative and Quantitative Methods: Positions and Position Changes in Psychology. A Comment on Texts by Jochen Fahrenberg and Jürgen Rost

Franz Breuer (Germany)

Abstract: This introduction moderates two contributions to the debate on standards of social research, each written by a representative of psychology. The two authors come from different methodological backgrounds: One represents a quantitative methodology—the other has (among others) an interpretative-psychological (qualitative) background. Their appraisal of recent movements in qualitative social research is surprisingly diverse: friendly and commendatory vs. sharply criticizing. This introduction compares the two positions, places them into disciplinary structures of psychology at German universities, and provides a heuristic contextualization of these positions in Yin-Yang Philosophy.

Key words: qualitative and quantitative methods, traditions and tradition changes in scientific disciplines, methodology of psychology, interdisciplinary communication, Yin-Yang Philosophy

This contribution is only available as a full text in the German language. German text

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