Practices Of Psychological Inquiry: The Global Challenge
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2014
Published In
Toward A Socially Responsible Psychology For A Global Era
Series Title
International And Cultural Psychology
Abstract
The preceding chapter challenged the guiding assumptions and values underpinning the major practices of Western psychology. If such practices are potentially inimical to dealing with global challenges, what alternatives are invited? Here we turn attention to practices of inquiry. In a globally responsible psychology, how are we to conceptualize the practice of research? As we find, this question cannot be treated separately from assumptions concerning the nature of knowledge. As we propose, to realize the potentials of a value-based progressivism, we must replace an outworn positivism with a social epistemology. In what follows, we explore this epistemological transition, and outline major forms of inquiry thus favored.
Keywords
Socially responsible inquiry, Methodology, Social epistemology, Inquiry and practice
Published By
Springer
Editor(s)
E. Mustakova-Possardt, M. Lyubansky, M. Basseches, and J. Oxenberg
Recommended Citation
Kenneth J. Gergen and M. Basseches.
(2014).
"Practices Of Psychological Inquiry: The Global Challenge".
Toward A Socially Responsible Psychology For A Global Era.
47-64.
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-7391-6_3
https://works.swarthmore.edu/fac-psychology/1046