Data, reality and interdisciplinary social psychology
- Chetan Sinha
Abstract
This article draws attention to the meaning of data and reality in
social psychology, where everything is in the process, and one
complements the other. Since social psychological data matters in the
disciplinary and non-disciplinary domains, data handling and
interpretations in terms of cause-effect nexus, best descriptions and
claiming of human subjectivities become a vital part of the disciplinary
process. Social psychological enterprise is a political field where the
role of structure and power give meaning to the data, and hence
construct the reality. The current article debate on the right kind of
politics where power is shared, humans not reduced to data, but active
data processor, and data which does not cater to the need of justice is
oppressive in itself.