Humanist principle

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Humanist principle or humanistic coefficient is a conceptual object that can refer to a method of conducting social research.

[edit] Humanistic Coefficient

In Florian Znaniecki's own words

"an observer of cultural life can understand the data observed only if taken with the” humanistic coefficient”, only if he does not limit his observation to his own direct experience of the data but reconstructs the experience and the data in the social context of the people involved".

Paraphrased from "The Social Role of the Man of Knowledge By Florian Znaniecki " Originally published: New York : Harper & Row, 1968.

[edit] See also

• Florian Znaniecki
• Stanisław Ossowski
• Verstehen