There shouldn't be such a demarcation of methods in each of the fields. Sociology and psychology, less anthropology, because they're all funking crazy. Some people don't like the thought that there's anything universal inin humanity. It takes a lot of commitment to spend your time learning something from other people.
Is social psychology just a kid dressing up in grown-up science clothes? Are the methods in social psychology--hypothesis-driven experiments and model-building--appropriate for the state of the field? Or do these methods lead to a narrowing of vision, stifled creativity, and a lack of informed curiosity about the social world> David and Tamler discuss the strong methodological critique of psychology from two of its leading practitioners - Paul Rozin and Solomon Asch.
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