Holism evaluation
- Created by: floramorris
- Created on: 04-04-19 09:39
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- Holism evaluation
- can explain key aspects of social behaviour
- there are some social behaviours that only emerge within a group context and cannot be understood at the level of individual group members.
- effects of Dei individualisation of prisoners and guards in the Stanford prison experiment
- could not be understood by studying the participants as individuals, only as groups.
- this shows that holistic explanations are needed for a more complete understanding go behaviour than reductionist approaches.
- impractical
- holistic explanations tend not to involve in depth scientific testing
- they become vague and speculative as they become more complex.
- suggests when it comes to finding solutions for Real world problems lower level explanations may be more appropriate
- can explain key aspects of social behaviour
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