Abstract

SANCHEZ, Euclides. Environmental psychology and its interdisciplinarity possibilities. Psicol. USP [online]. 2005, vol.16, n.3, pp.195-206. ISSN 1678-5177.

How can one discuss questions of method in environmental psychology, in view of its necessary interdisciplinarity? Would there be a methodological specificity so that environmental psychology is not realized due to the intrinsic differences between disciplines, and inside psychology itself? What would this specificity be? To the author, these questions can be summarized in one: environmental psychology is an interdisciplinary discipline that is not realized due to intrinsic differences between disciplines, including the question of method and methodology. He substantiates interdisciplinarity in the conception of integrated object, and explains that the difficulty lies in the fact that each discipline operates within a different paradigm, but interdisciplinarity can only be located within one paradigm. As the method implies the methodology that inspires it, environmental investigation and intervention could enable the conjunction of knowledge deriving from many sources in one single paradigm. He suggests that the interdisciplinary relation should be operated in each concrete case. The author proposes, as a conclusion, an agenda for the development of interdisciplinarity.

Keywords : Environmental psychology; Interdisciplinary Research; Methodology.

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