Self-Concept Research: A Historical Overview

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The thesis of this paper is that a major obstacle to progress in self-concept theory and research has been certain dominant or major scientific paradigms that were inhospitable to research on this topic. In psychology it was the behaviorist paradigm; in sociology, the social factist and social behaviorist paradigms; and in psychoanalysis, the Freudian paradigm. Largely because of these paradigms, the self-concept was not considered part of the legitimate subject-matter of this field. The history of self-concept research illustrates haw scientific principle can stand in the way of scientific progress.

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