Researching the Psychosocial
An Introduction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12733155 |
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| Authors | Stephanie Taylor (0000-0001-7454-6354, The Open University, corresponding author), Jean McAvoy (The Open University) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-7 |
| Publication date | 2014-11-11 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Research in Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1478-0887 • E-ISSN: 1478-0895 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14780887.2014.958043 |
| OpenAlex | W1849296306 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 14 |
This special issue explores key issues relevant to psychosocial research and presents innovative qualitative approaches for investigating this emerging field. The term ‘psychosocial’ is increasingly widely used and has become associated with its own ‘turn’ in social theorising and research. Such a turn would be consistent with a now-well established trajectory of academic innovation. It implies a Kuhnian leap and a major re-framing through which deficiencies and absences in current theory and research are recognised then remedied, opening up new directions and problems for investigation, as occurred in psychology with the ‘discursive turn’ of the 1980s and 90s. However, the status of a psychosocial turn is less clear-cut, first because of the very broad reference of the term ‘psychosocial’, second, because of the apparent overlap with the project of social psychology, and third, because of the odd relation of the psychosocial to psychology more generally, including the rejection of its main traditions of qualitative research. This introduction expands on these points and introduces the five central articles in this special issue, each of which contributes a particular resolution to the challenges of the new turn, and the commentaries in which two senior critical and social psychologists, Ian Parker and Margaret Wetherell, reflect on future directions for psychosocial research
Epistemology · Psychoanalysis · Psychosocial · Psychotherapist · Sociology · Community Health and Development · Critical Realism in Sociology · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Representations and Identity
Contemporary Identities of Creativity and Creative Work
Contemporary Identities of Creativity and Creative Work
Reassembling the Social
Reassembling the Social
‘One participant said …’
More Than Words
Tears, Bubbles and Disappointment—New Approaches for the Analysis of Affective-Discursive Practices
The Problem of a Subjective Authenticity and the Articulation of Belonging among the Irish in England—A Psychosocial Approach
From Ideology to Feeling
Swimming against the Stream
Walls and Holes in Psychosocial Research
Discursive and Psychosocial? Theorising a Complex Contemporary Subject
Affect and Emotion
Interpretation and over-interpretation
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