Post by irynay on Oct 28, 2017 3:56:09 GMT
I think a social constructionist psychologist would be rather unsympathetic with respect to the use of idiographic research methods. Social constructionism is focused on the collectively created views and norms instead of the individual ones. On the other hand, idiographic methods are centered around obtaining information about the particular individual. It very hard to use the results of such research to form an idea about society in general. I think such research would be simply of very little, if any, interest to this kind of psychologist.
Edit: During preparation to the test I've realized that I probably got this answer wrong, so I'm correcting myself. Social constructionists are opposing a lot of ideas of traditional psychology, including the nomothetic research method. The method they prefer more is based on conversational or discourse analysis. The idiographic method seems to fit very well with these approaches. To summarize, I think this kind of psychologist would be very sympathetic toward the idiographic method.
Edit: During preparation to the test I've realized that I probably got this answer wrong, so I'm correcting myself. Social constructionists are opposing a lot of ideas of traditional psychology, including the nomothetic research method. The method they prefer more is based on conversational or discourse analysis. The idiographic method seems to fit very well with these approaches. To summarize, I think this kind of psychologist would be very sympathetic toward the idiographic method.