Transfromational Epistemology: Towards Integrally Pluralist Psychosocial Studies (abstract only)  

Oleh:

Gülerce, Aydan

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: The International Symposium on Social Sciences (TISSS) and Hong Kong International Conference on Education, Psychology and Society (HKICEPS) at Hongkong, December 2013, page 680.
Topik: Dialogical ontology; integral unit of analysis; intersubjectivity; pluralism; transformational epistemology
Fulltext: Hong Kong-Conference 111.pdf (317.57KB)

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While Western thought and modern knowledge/practices have been hegemonic over the last centuries, a significant characteristic of modernity appeared to be the extreme fragmentation. Rather recently, critical voices from multiple intellectual fields cast doubt not only in disciplinarity and hyperspecialization of Western modernity. But also, the metaphysical, metatheoretical, philosophical and various other biases of the mainstream scientism have been scrutinized by post-Cartesian perspectives. Added to those are the unjust sociohistorical conditions which reproduce or further create profound confusion, lack of communication and conflict of all sorts and at all levels in global society. This reflective paper first briefly describes and evaluates the major knowledge paradigms and their prevalent epistemological, ontological, methodological presumptions in relation to our human (psychological) life worlds and intersubjectivity. Then, several defining features of transformational epistemology is contoured as a dialogical and inclusively pluralist perspective embracing these incommensurable conventions as a possibility for the current global intellectual capital in psychosocial studies to move out of the so-called postmodern paradox.

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