ABSTRACT
Science is a continual process of questioning, data-seeking, and struggling to clarify and refine the current answers. Science is demanding rather than casual, invigorating rather than relaxing, produces new questions rather than certainties. People can be very good at something without doing it scientifically or using the scientific work of others. Carl Roger, a psychotherapist and personality theorist, says scientific research needs to be seen for what it truly is; a way of preventing him from deceiving himself in regard to creatively formed subjective hunches which have developed out of the relationship between him and his material. It is probably impossible to be completely objective once people get into studying something emotionally important, but good science strives to constrain how subjective values and assumptions might have influenced the people. This chapter deals with different types of description and explanation, for example coordinating levels or modifying one level in the light of another.
