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Psychologists and other folks: Comments on psychology as a science in between self-knowledge and otherness
Örebro University, School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1702-0182
2020 (English)In: Theory & psychology, ISSN 0959-3543, E-ISSN 1461-7447, Vol. 30, no 3, p. 414-419Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Barbara Held (2020) discusses the claim that mainstream psychology tends to exert epistemic violence on so-called “othered” groups. Held shows, however, (a) that the idea of different epistemologies underpinning some such arguments is a difficult matter, (b) that folk notions (and theories) sometimes hailed as an antidote to the alleged othering might themselves at times be oppressive, and (c) that so-called mainstream psychology in fact can well serve progressive and critical purposes. Thus, Held problematizes the distinction made between psychology about (from above) and psychology of and from (from below); that is, she finds the distinction unconvincing and rather problematic as it stands. Yet, she does not seem to wish to do away with it all together. In this comment, I relate her discussion to a wider scientific debate on othering, and, by way of an ending, offer an alternative metaphor: psychology from the flank.

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Sage Publications, 2020. Vol. 30, no 3, p. 414-419
Keywords [en]
epistemic objectivity versus relativity, epistemic violence, othering, philosophy of psychology, science from below
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Psychology Sociology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-83940DOI: 10.1177/0959354320923038ISI: 000544264100013Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85087121254OAI: oai:DiVA.org:oru-83940DiVA, id: diva2:1449095
Available from: 2020-06-29 Created: 2020-06-29 Last updated: 2022-08-31Bibliographically approved

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