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Cultural Psychology and Qualitative Methodology
Qualitative methodologies in cultural psychology often lack the objective and verifiable character of quantitative analysis. Author Carl Ratner corrects this shortcoming by rigorously systematizing qualitative methods. The book discusses, for example, means of systematizing such subjective reports as interviews, letters, and diaries, which often yield valuable data that is not easily quantified. Ratner argues that \"complex psychological phenomena are expressed through extended responses\" and hence are best studied by new, more regularized qualitative methods that go beyond measuring simple, overt responses.
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Subjectivity and Objectivity in Qualitative Methodology
This article argues that subjective processes, social relations, and artifacts (including research instruments and methods) enable researchers to objectively comprehend psychological phenomena. This position opposes the postmodernist contention that subjective processes, social relations, and artifacts interfere with objectivity. The article outlines a hermeneutic procedure for interpreting narratives in a way that comprehends the real psychological meanings that are expressed. This procedure is contrasted with an impressionistic summary of a narrative which imposes the researcher's theoretical perspective on the protocol instead of elucidating the subject's meanings. URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0203160
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Epistemological, Social, and Political Conundrums in Social Constructionism
This article critiques the central premise of social constructionism, namely that groups of people freely construct beliefs about things and that beliefs are \"local truths\" which must be honored by outsiders and cannot be evaluated by external criteria. I argue that eliminating truth claims makes all beliefs arbitrary and eliminates the very notion of error. This leads to accepting what are in fact false and dangerous beliefs. It also leads to dogmatic cults of divergent social groups maintaining any belief system they want, and rejecting in principle all criticism or need improvement. The resulting social fragmentation prevents mutual understanding and communication. While social constructionism claims to be radically anti-modernist, i.e., anti-capitalist, the social fragmentation and uncritical thinking it promotes, exactly reflect the practices of capitalists who work for their own self-interests, disregard community concerns, and dismiss factual evidence about capitalism's negative effects on the environment, health, and society. I propose that real community and understanding require an acceptance of \"modernist\" scientific principles that can critique harmful practices and design social reform. URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs060142
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Neoliberal Co-optation of Leading Co-op Organizations, and a Socialist Counter-Politics of Cooperation
The structure of the U.S. co-op movement is examined to show its link to federal agencies that have neoliberal agenda. Moreover, it is shown that many U.S. co-ops in name are profit-driven capitalist corporations in practice. In light of the prevailing neoliberal co-optation, characteristics of a co-op based on socialist values are also highlighted.
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Social Constructionism as Cultism. Comments on: \'Old-Stream' Psychology Will Disappear With the Dinosaurs!\ Kenneth Gergen in Conversation With Peter Mattes and Ernst Schraube
URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0501289
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