Psycho-social research: relating self, identity, and otherness
Year: 2018
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: In this chapter, the author explores the nature of psycho-social research, its origins, development, and its importance in contemporary social science research, in particular when applied to areas such as cultural identities and Otherness. He provides some of the basic methodological practices of psycho-social research and some of the challenges it issues to mainstream social science thinking. The author describes what really has been his own theoretical and practical path to psycho-social research and starting to think about relationality in the context of social science research. The origins of his own interpretation of psycho-social research lie in the critical theory of the Frankfurt School, in which they attempt to marry sociology and Freudian psychoanalysis into a critical theory or social philosophy of society, societal phenomena, and identity construction. Psycho-social research can be seen to be part of a group of methodologies that point towards a distinct position.
Source: Routledge eBooks
Author: Simon Clarke
Language: English
Subfield: Cultural Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W129536282