摘要: This primer serves two functions: (1) It is a simplified introduction to Q methodology, covering the topics of concourse, samples, sorting, correlation, factor analysis, theoretical rotation, scores, and factor interpretation. (2) also illustrates different conceptions Q methodology by taking concept "Q methodology" as subject matter study. The results show how current understandings about are traceable debates among Stephenson, Burt, others in the 1930s, '40s, '50s.