Liberating Data: Politics of Reality in Interdisciplinary Social Psychology.

Causality Data; liberation Human nature Interdisciplinary social psychology; critical reality

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Integrative psychological & behavioral science

ISSN: 1936-3567

Titre abrégé: Integr Psychol Behav Sci

Pays: United States

ID NLM: 101319534

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Date de publication:
03 Feb 2022

Historique:

accepted: 23 12 2021

pubmed: 5 2 2022

medline: 5 2 2022

entrez: 4 2 2022

Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

This paper draws attention to the meaning of data, politics and reality in social psychology. Since social psychological data matters, critical reflection on data handling and interpretations expands the horizon of social psychology beyond the cause-effect nexus. Social psychological enterprise is a political field where the role of structure and power give meaning to the data, and hence construct the reality. This can be further situated in the institutions and the dominant paradigm which regulates the structuring of data and interpretations. The current paper debates the politics of data, human agency, and the way data in social psychology has the potential to be liberating and change-oriented.

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DOI: 10.1007/s12124-021-09673-1 PMID: 35118600 PMC: PMC8812948

pubmed: 35118600

doi: 10.1007/s12124-021-09673-1

pii: 10.1007/s12124-021-09673-1

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