Positive psychology as a scientific movement: a case study in scientific legitimacy

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dc.contributor.advisorGalbo, Joseph
dc.contributor.authorSimmons, Jonathan S.
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-01T16:20:29Z
dc.date.available2023-03-01T16:20:29Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.date.updated2020-06-15T00:00:00Z
dc.description.abstractPsychology has always been vulnerable to fads, producing its share of psychological movements and therapeutic cults that blur the borderline between science and non-science. It's important for sociologists of ideas and those who study the social life of scientists and intellectuals to engage with the content of ideas and to take conflicts about scientific legitimacy seriously, both as a measure of how scientists evaluate each other's symbolic products and as criteria for what counts as scientific truth. This research is an attempt to reinvigorate a sociological approach to a debate regarding scientific legitimacy in a case study informed by Frickel and Gross's general theory of scientific/intellectual movements. The focus will be positive psychology's emergence at the end of the last decade and the ongoing debate regarding its scientific legitimacy and how positive psychologists have positioned their movement in relation to past positive psychologies.
dc.description.copyright©Jonathan S. Simmons, 2012
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dc.format.extentvii, 87 pages
dc.format.mediumelectronic
dc.identifier.oclc(OCoLC)1341621271en
dc.identifier.otherThesis 8999
dc.identifier.urihttps://unbscholar.lib.unb.ca/handle/1882/13570
dc.language.isoen_CA
dc.publisherUniversity of New Brunswick
dc.rightshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2
dc.subject.disciplineSociology
dc.subject.lcshIntellectual life.en
dc.subject.lcshPositive psychology.en
dc.subject.lcshFads--Psychology.en
dc.titlePositive psychology as a scientific movement: a case study in scientific legitimacy
dc.typemaster thesis
thesis.degree.disciplineSociology
thesis.degree.fullnameMaster of Arts
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of New Brunswick
thesis.degree.levelmasters
thesis.degree.nameM.A.

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