Rhetoric and Psychology

Billig, Michael; Marinho, Cristina

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“…Such an incident occurred in the Portuguese parliament, when a communist member defined citizenship in terms of class and excluded shareholders from the nation. The speaker could only voice this idea as if he was making a joke (Billig & Marinho, 2017, pp. 170 f.).…”

Section: Towards a Psychology For Understanding Cosmopolitanism And N...mentioning

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The national nature of globalization and the global nature of nationalism: Historically and methodologically entangled

Billig

2023

Theory & Psychology

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It is often assumed that psychological globalization produces tolerant, cosmopolitan outlooks, which deglobalization is now replacing with intolerance and narrow nationalism. This article argues that nationalism and cosmopolitanism, rather than being simple opposites, are entangled historically and methodologically, and that the national nature of globalization and the global nature of nationalism need to be recognized. Historically, the period of globalization coincided with the formation of the world of nation-states. Methodologically, economic calculations of globalization assume a world of nation-states. Nationalism is not only global in its reach but national consciousness is entangled with international consciousness. This entanglement may not be apparent if nationalism is equated with its extreme forms, for nationalism has everyday forms in established states. This article shows how studies of cosmopolitanism can themselves take for granted the world of nation-states within their methodologies. There are some brief suggestions about how to study banal nationalism.

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The national nature of globalization and the global nature of nationalism: Historically and methodologically entangled

Billig

2023

Theory & Psychology

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“…In a series of papers and a recent book, Michael Billig (1994, 2008, 2011, 2013; Billig & Marinho, 2015) takes a critical look at the use of rhetoric in contemporary academic writing. He argues that the terminology routinely used in the social sciences is often less precise for describing human actions than is nontechnical language.…”

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“…Generally speaking, the use of nominalization in social science writing involves representing the actions of people (and, in some cases, the researchers themselves) in terms of transformations of verbs into nouns through the addition of suffixes such as ‘ifcation’ and ‘ization,’ for example, ‘categorization’ from ‘categorize,’ and ‘perception’ from ‘perceive’ (Billig, 2011, 2013; Billig & Marinho, 2015). The use of passivization involves presenting the actions of researchers (and, also research participants) in passive rather than active voice, for example, “It is suggested that .…”

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“…The primary aim of the present work is to explore some possible explanations for why this has occurred. Specifically, we turn to Michael Billig’s work (Billig, 2011, 2013; Billig & Marinho, 2015) concerning a common style of discourse and attendant rhetoric for potential insights into why constructs have gone from being that which psychological researchers construct in the process of conducting science to that of which they seek knowledge, or some hybrid of the two.…”

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Constructing psychological objects: The rhetoric of constructs.

Slaney

Garcia

2015

Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology

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The concept 'construct' has been used to denote a large class of phenomena, including more classically defined traits (such as introversion and extroversion), clinical and diagnostic categories (e.g., psychopathy), cognitive functions (e.g., cognitive control, verbal memory), and more specific attitudinal and/or behavioral phenomena (ranging from "attitudes towards work schedules" to "pharmacists' care of migraineurs"). Moreover, how construct as a general category is characterized varies considerably, and constructs are often portrayed at the same time as theoretical concepts and the very phenomena designated by those theoretical concepts. In the present work, we draw on Michael Billig's descriptions of some of the implications of privileging a particular style of writing in social science discourse to provide a partial explanation as to why the constructed connotation of constructs (i.e., as theoretical concepts created by psychological researchers) has largely given sway to the reification of constructs (i.e., as objects under study) in the discourse of construct validation, and psychological discourse, more generally. We conclude by providing recommendations for psychological researchers regarding how to ward against ambiguous uses of the concept 'construct.'

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Slaney

2017

Validating Psychological Constructs

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Rhetoric and Psychology

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The national nature of globalization and the global nature of nationalism: Historically and methodologically entangled

The national nature of globalization and the global nature of nationalism: Historically and methodologically entangled

Constructing psychological objects: The rhetoric of constructs.

Some Conceptual Housecleaning

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