Averting the perils of methodolatry and scientism in psychology
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https://doi.org/10.20453/rph.v13i2.3902Abstract
Methodolatry and scientism are two terms very used in some intellectual critical circles to refer to, respectively, a trend to overvalue methods above theory and an uncritical application of certain methods to research. These two trends are often linked between them and they are a consequence of a methodological conception of science. This article contributes to give an alert about the shortcomings of the methodological conception of science and presents a brief analysis of the levels of scientific practice as an schematic elaboration of aspects of scientific method which we have to reflect on in order to avoid the risks involved in the these trends.
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