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There is a lot to be gained from studying a topic in psychology from more than one perspective. Discuss this claim drawing on chapters 2 an 3 of book 2 to illustrate your points.
Psychology is a subject which is based on theory and uses various scientific methods to both collect and analyse data. There are many different psychological perspectives adopted by psychologists who take different viewpoints from each other, even though the topic they are interested in is the same. This essay aims to address the question that there is a lot to be gained from studying a topic in psychology from more than one perspective, by looking at the topics of language and meaning from the perspectives of the social constructionists, evoulutionary psychologists and cognitive psychology. And the topic of the psychology of sex and gender from the perspectives of social contructionists, evoulutionary psychology, biological psychology and psychodynamic psychology.
One advantage of studying a topic in psychology from various different perspectives, is that each perspective has a different "object of knowledge" and therefore the questions that each perspective will pose, the evidence they collect and the methods they use to collect that evidence will be different. Which in turn causes each perspective either to conflict, coexist or complelement each other. If we look at the topic of the psychology of sex and gender from a social constructionist perspective, the object of knowledge we would be consentrating or interesreted in is that of the social and cultural context of how sex and gender affect our lives, as social constuctionists beleive that the world is constructed in language, it argues that biological sex is not central to explaining what it is to be male or female. Social constructionist theory believes that the anatomical differences that we are born with are nothing more than a signpost to which socially constructed gender differences of masculine and feminine are...
Psychology is a subject which is based on theory and uses various scientific methods to both collect and analyse data. There are many different psychological perspectives adopted by psychologists who take different viewpoints from each other, even though the topic they are interested in is the same. This essay aims to address the question that there is a lot to be gained from studying a topic in psychology from more than one perspective, by looking at the topics of language and meaning from the perspectives of the social constructionists, evoulutionary psychologists and cognitive psychology. And the topic of the psychology of sex and gender from the perspectives of social contructionists, evoulutionary psychology, biological psychology and psychodynamic psychology.
One advantage of studying a topic in psychology from various different perspectives, is that each perspective has a different "object of knowledge" and therefore the questions that each perspective will pose, the evidence they collect and the methods they use to collect that evidence will be different. Which in turn causes each perspective either to conflict, coexist or complelement each other. If we look at the topic of the psychology of sex and gender from a social constructionist perspective, the object of knowledge we would be consentrating or interesreted in is that of the social and cultural context of how sex and gender affect our lives, as social constuctionists beleive that the world is constructed in language, it argues that biological sex is not central to explaining what it is to be male or female. Social constructionist theory believes that the anatomical differences that we are born with are nothing more than a signpost to which socially constructed gender differences of masculine and feminine are...