We Researchers: Unquiet People Disquieting Others. a Commentary on Duarte & Gonçalves' "negotiating Motherhood: a Dialogical Approach"
Year: 2007
Type: article
Abstract: ABSTRACT. This comment aims to highlight some aspects of Duarte & Gonçalves’ contribution concerning the researcher's cultural symbolic action. Some aspects of researcher-participant dialogue are discussed under the perspective of the process of the transformative life of myths. Departing from the relevance assumed by the myth of 'intensive motherhood ' in western societies, Duarte and Gonçalves ' research (2007, this issue) allows us to critically broaden the scope of psychological understanding of the event of "being a mother". Amongst the several aspects of their rich and fruitful contribution that captured my attention, I have chosen to focus on our cultural symbolic action as researchers. To this extent, and in few words, my comment can be situated at the meta-theoretical level of discussion concerning the constructive research process through which a myth can be transformatively observed and studied. Keeping Myths Alive Myths are constantly both recreated and maintained by social actors for some purposes, at some periods, in some place, giving them an opportunity to fulfill prescribed social roles, allowing them feelings of self-accomplishment, self-enhancement and self-realization, as well as preventing them from other actions and feelings. To this extent, myths are alive and usually have a long life. Nonetheless, the life of a myth is vulnerable, as it depends on the person’s pervasive symbolic negotiations in the cultural field of social actions. As the whole
Author: Lívia Mathias Simão
Language: English
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2133746946