What if Discipline Is Not Interdisciplinary? The Case of Social Psychology in India

Sinha, Chetan

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“…The manner social psychology connects the context with the facts, sometimes rules of logic (see Harre, 1983Harre, , 1998 become overstated. As it happened in the case of social psychology where the rigid understanding of the social categories like west or east taken for granted and given the absolute status (see Sinha, 2019; see also Pirta & Misra, 2021).…”

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“…The social psychological problems emerge from the social contexts such as social hierarchies and culture, religion, history of oppressions. This together give ground to the social psychology which is emancipating and generating critical consciousness (see Mishra & Padalia, 2021; see also Sinha, 2016Sinha, , 2019. Knowing is to become conscious.…”

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Liberating Data: Politics of Reality in Interdisciplinary Social Psychology

Sinha

2022

Integr. psych. behav.

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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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Liberating Data: Politics of Reality in Interdisciplinary Social Psychology

Sinha

2022

Integr. psych. behav.

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“…The method of locating or interpreting something as data conjectured based on relational rules appropriated by the research community and institutional metatheory (see also Sinha, 2019). In the social psychology or the other dominant fields of psychology, whose metatheory gets fuel from its methodological juggernaut, the cause-effect doesn't seem perspicuously present either in the enactment or in the sensemaking process (see Drury, 1976;Weick et al, 2005).…”

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“…Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Chetan Sinha, Ph.D., Jindal Global Law School, OP Jindal Global University, Sonipat, India-131001. Email: csinha@jgu.edu.in, sinchetan@gmail.com sometimes rules of logic (see Harre, 1983Harre, , 1998 become overstated, as it happened in the case of social psychology where the ratified and reified understanding of the social categories like west or east taken for granted and given the absolute status (see Sinha, 2019). L. Wittgenstein in Tractatus showed that objective existence of the world is a fact and there is a universal language connected to those worldly facts, and later this view was further reformed to the human ability to play language games (Wittgenstein, 1958).…”

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The politics of data and reality in interdisciplinary social psychology

Sinha¹

2020

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This article draws attention to the meaning of data and reality in social psychology, where everything is in the process, and one complements the other. Since social psychological data matters, data handling and interpretations in terms of cause-effect nexus, best descriptions and claiming of human subjectivities become a vital part of the advancement of social psychology. Social psychological enterprise is a political field where the role of structure and power give meaning to the data, and hence construct the reality. The current article discusses on the politics of data and power and how subjects of social psychology are not data in itself but active data processor. The observer perspective implied to understand others’, if does not cater to the need of justice, the data is oppressive in itself. Keyword: cause-effect, data, human nature, interdisciplinarity, reality, social psychology

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Future call for policy making to speed up interdisciplinarity between natural and social sciences and humanities in countries such as India

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2021

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Objectives Science is the erudite methodical systematic practises to study the structure and behaviour of natural objects and/or phenomena. It clearly unknot about the fact that science is a human (society) need based process that starts with social affairs, for example, need to exchange emotion and cognitive processes (psychology), feelings (literature), relation (sociology), money (economics) etc. Humanities are the use of approaches that are predominantly hypothetical but critical, and have a noteworthy historical component, and the methodical aspects distinguish it from the mainly experiential approaches of the science. The basic approaches in both remains the same that it needs a hypothesis, sound methodology, and interpretation of data. Human is the end user in both the cases. So, why only interdisciplinary research focused on the core subjects of science? For example, philosophy, deals with general and vital complications relating to matters including existence, knowledge, language, attitude, behaviour, values, ethics, reason, mind, peace and harmony in life which can be essentially a part of science (especially natural sciences and more particularly animals sciences such as zoology) or vice versa could be true. The current and future time will allow us to believe on such concept, is the main theme of the current article. Methods Articles from all published sources are considered for answering the objective that why not concentrating to speed up interdisciplinarity. Few tables and figure are reproduced or redrawn as per the need. And numerical data are collected to present the current status of the interdisciplinarity and the need of the pace it requires. Results It is noticed that number of research articles on interdisciplinarity in comparison to several core subject area in major databases including environmental biology are still negligible. Countries still need to inter-collaborate at interdisciplinary level for the development and benefit of human race. This needs to be done mainly at socio-economic, intercultural and scientific levels. Although numbers of steps are taken such as establishment of interdisciplinary institutes, introduction of interdisciplinary courses, interdisciplinary research and publication platforms in specialized dedicated journals, still concrete steps to introduce the course of interdisciplinarity at educational and professional level is wanting. Conclusion Therefore, policy on pace in interdisciplinarity across science and humanities is highly wanting especially in developing countries to fix several national and international issues. Present article deals with the current status and future prospective or policies required on interdisciplinarity.

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What if Discipline Is Not Interdisciplinary? The Case of Social Psychology in India

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Liberating Data: Politics of Reality in Interdisciplinary Social Psychology

Liberating Data: Politics of Reality in Interdisciplinary Social Psychology

The politics of data and reality in interdisciplinary social psychology

Future call for policy making to speed up interdisciplinarity between natural and social sciences and humanities in countries such as India

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