Self-Observation in the Social Sciences

Taylor & Francis

Self-Observation in the Social SciencesAuthor(s): Joshua W. Clegg\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Inc, United States\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781412849494, 978-1412849494\nSynopsis\nNotwithstanding the mythical demise of \""introspection,\"" self-observation has always been an integral aspect of the social sciences. In the century following the \""behavioral revolution,\"" psychology has seen a reduction not so much in the frequency as in the rigor with which self-observation is practiced. A great deal of self-observation has been renamed or obscured (as, for example, \""self-report\""), but this has served only to defer and impoverish important theoretical and technical work.\n\nThis volume, which contributes to the development of a rigorous theory of self-observation, is organized around three general objectives: to re-animate a discourse on self-observation through a historical analysis of various self-observation traditions; to outline and begin to address some.