Psycho-social research: relating self, identity, and otherness

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.

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