Culture, history, and psychology: Some historical reflections and research directions

Wagoner, Brady; Brescó, Ignacio

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“…The historicity intrinsic to social re-presentation (Villas Bôas, 2013) and social psychology more generally (Gergen, 1973;Billig, 2018;Wagoner and Brescó de Luna, 2018) validates the actionoriented formula, as this provides a skeleton for carrying out longitudinal research tracing joint projects Bauer, 2015, p. 57). Our reformulation shifts the research focus away from the automatic centrality of representational content, and looks at how dominant and subordinate groups re-define the meaning of contextual objects in view of their own motivated reasoning (Kunda, 1990;Molden and Higgins, 2005), and given their different resources (Staerklé et al, 2011).…”

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‘Social Re-presentation for…’: An Action-Oriented Formula for Intergroup Relations Research

Buhagiar

Sammut

2020

Front. Psychol.

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Intergroup relations are of crucial importance in contemporary times, with concerns around social representations, social influence and collective action remaining salient. A core aspect of intergroup conflict revolves around the notion of joint projects, whereby different collectives seek to promote their own project through processes of joint intentionality. Nonetheless, we contend that intergroup relations research can tackle the notion of projects more fruitfully by studying the mutual understandings of projects of groups in conflict. Accordingly, we propose an action-oriented reformulation for intergroup relations research, which is contrasted with the standard object-oriented formula. Object-oriented research either (a) emphasizes the study of social objects without regard for their different construal by members of conflicting groups, or (b) focuses on 'social representations of' the objects in question, without regard for the projects that such representations serve. Contrastingly, action-oriented research (a) seeks to understand a collective's 'social re-presentation for' a specific project; and (b) studies the social and alternative re-presentation of objects and projects as a systemic product of intergroup relations. We then present illustrative examples of objectoriented research, followed by a study concerning Arab-Maltese relations in Malta as an example of action-oriented research. We end by making recommendations for future research on intergroup relations, with the aim of shedding light on the processes that bind coalitions for collective action.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 81%

‘Social Re-presentation for…’: An Action-Oriented Formula for Intergroup Relations Research

Buhagiar

Sammut

2020

Front. Psychol.

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“…Thomas Hylland Eriksen notes that despite the controversies between universalism and cultural relativism manifested at the practical level, it does not at all mean that this kind of controversy is inevitable. For example, a researcher may be a relativist judging by methods used at the descriptive level, but, at the same time, as an analyst may believe that that specifi c fundamental patterns are identical for any person and society (Eriksen T. H.;2018;pp.10-11). For Bradd royal road to knowledge' (B.…”

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“…2019Valsiner, J. , 2014Valsiner, J. , 2012Valsiner, J. , 2000. Andrew Beatty describes this 'new' discipline of cultural psychology as "more experimental than anthropology, more relativistic and refl exive than psychology" (Beatty, A. W.;2018). In this context, convergence of psychology and anthropology, and building a bridge between them is becoming important again for some psychologists (Vladimer Lado Tamar Chkhaidze & Lali Surmanidze.…”

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Psychological Anthropology Viewed From Another Flank

Surmanidze

2022

Georgian Psychological Journal

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Jerome Bruner believed that the gap between psychology and anthropology was the biggest mistake of the science studying the human being. Despite fragmentary attempts, real cooperation between psychologists and anthropologists has not been yet established in the fi eld of psychological anthropology. Considering this fi eld a subdiscipline still prevents psychologists and anthropologists from intense cooperation to create a joint, synthetic intellectual product. The solution of conceptual and epistemological dilemmas and overcoming the dichotomic understanding of antithesis along with the clear orientation of empirical and research practice on a mutually supplementary, hybrid use of methods, places modern psychological anthropology among the disciplines which aim to pursue a fundamental goal: to integrate controversial realities into a whole, while recognizing their complex interaction and coexistence. It is quite clear that the above cannot be an aspiration of any subdiscipline. Today, psychological anthropology is facing a number of issues related to self-refl ection and conceptual and methodological rethinking, the tasks requiring synthetic solution. Psychological anthropology is the space where the most complex dilemmas, with a powerful cognizing potential equally important for psychology and anthropology, intersect. It is a meeting space for versatile methodological resources. By its nature, psychological anthropology is an interdisciplinary space where different sciences (humanities, natural, social, behavioral) intersect and which is able to create a fertile ground for the development of a transdisciplinary theory of human being.

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“…Quite different, context-sensitive approaches share the aim of analysing how things interact in social life (Wagoner & Brescó de Luna, 2018). However, different theoretical approaches represent various views on concepts of power, regulation, reproduction, politics and inequality.…”

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Conflicts, situated inequality and politics of everyday life

Højholt

Larsen

2021

Culture & Psychology

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This article discusses theoretical challenges in conceptualising the dialectical relationship between historical conditions and the situated interplay between people in concrete everyday practice. The concept of conflict may help us move beyond tendencies within psychology to separate history and situated practice, structure and activity, and micro- and macroprocesses – and to regard social life as unambiguous or as governed through hegemony. Research on the everyday social life of schools describes societal conflicts about education and how school children deal with unequal conditions when handling the conflictuality of their everyday lives. Analyses of coordination and conflicts between various parties (e.g. children, parents, teachers and psychologists) elucidate connections between intersubjective efforts to make things work in everyday practice and historical struggles related to the school as a social institution. Concepts are required that enable understanding of these processes as historical and political, driven by intersubjectivity related to concrete dilemmas, connected to personal and collaborative conduct of everyday life – processes we term the politics of everyday life. From a social practice perspective, we discuss how to grasp the ways in which people constitute the conditions for each other in a situated interplay in which they deal with common problems and – through these activities – also produce history.

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Culture, history, and psychology: Some historical reflections and research directions

Cited by 9 publications

References 32 publications

‘Social Re-presentation for…’: An Action-Oriented Formula for Intergroup Relations Research

‘Social Re-presentation for…’: An Action-Oriented Formula for Intergroup Relations Research

Psychological Anthropology Viewed From Another Flank

Conflicts, situated inequality and politics of everyday life

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