Historical and epistemological context of the development of qualitative research in psychology. Part 2

Abstract

The discussion of the history of qualitative research in psychology in the contexts of hermeneutics, phenomenology, ethnomethodology, phenomenological sociology and psychiatry is continued in the present article. Modern theories – social constructionism, discursive, narrative and critical psychology – and their orientation to qualitative methods of research are considered. Interdisciplinary cultural, gender and feminist projects of qualitative research are described. In the end of the article the key thesis is formulated: qualitative methodology is a critical hermeneutics of psychological knowledge.