Rather than seeing idiographic and nomothetic approaches as either/or alternatives, we can consider the same issues or topic from both perspectives, depending on the nature of the research question.
Research on gender devlopment attempts to establish general patterns of behavour (e.g. Bem's androgymy scale) alongside case studies of atypical devlopment (e.g. the case of David Reimer).
The goal of modern psychology is to provide rich, detailed descriptions of human behviour as well as the explanation of such behviour within the framework of general laws.
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