“Unavailable, Insecure, and Very Poorly Paid”: Global Difficulties and Inequalities in Conducting Social Psychological Research
This paper offers an exploration of research production in social psychology as a global endeavor from the point of view of Anglophone social psychologists (N = 232) across 64 countries. We examine social psychologists’ beliefs regarding the difficulties in conducting research in social psychology a...
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| description | This paper offers an exploration of research production in social psychology as a global endeavor from the point of view of Anglophone social psychologists (N = 232) across 64 countries. We examine social psychologists’ beliefs regarding the difficulties in conducting research in social psychology and the inequalities that they report between the Global North, South and East Europe, and the Global South. Across all regions, we found pervasive critical awareness of obstacles to conducting research – including underinvestment in the field, precarious and counter-productive labor conditions, and excessive and biased disciplinary standards. However, we also found that colleagues outside the Global North reported quantitatively and qualitatively larger obstacles to research. These included well-known historically-rooted inequalities but also contemporary systemic procedural and distributive injustices in material, human, and social-political capital. Non-Northern colleagues in particular critically reflected on how these inequalities and injustices are amplified by Northern hegemonies in social, institutional, disciplinary, economic, and political systems. Discussion focuses on the implications of these results for social psychologists, social psychology as a discipline, and its situation within broader hierarchical systems and their intersectionalities. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a71429e73cf7476b9fbafa0b408819462023-01-02T10:29:57ZengPsychOpen GOLD/ Leibniz Institute for PsychologyJournal of Social and Political Psychology2195-33252022-12-0110272374210.5964/jspp.8311jspp.8311“Unavailable, Insecure, and Very Poorly Paid”: Global Difficulties and Inequalities in Conducting Social Psychological ResearchFouad Bou Zeineddine0Rim Saab1Barbara Lášticová2Arin H. Ayanian3Anna Kende4Institute of Psychology, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, AustriaDepartment of Psychology, University of Sussex, Brighton, United KingdomInstitute for Research in Social Communication, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, SlovakiaInstitute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, GermanyInstitute of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, HungaryThis paper offers an exploration of research production in social psychology as a global endeavor from the point of view of Anglophone social psychologists (N = 232) across 64 countries. We examine social psychologists’ beliefs regarding the difficulties in conducting research in social psychology and the inequalities that they report between the Global North, South and East Europe, and the Global South. Across all regions, we found pervasive critical awareness of obstacles to conducting research – including underinvestment in the field, precarious and counter-productive labor conditions, and excessive and biased disciplinary standards. However, we also found that colleagues outside the Global North reported quantitatively and qualitatively larger obstacles to research. These included well-known historically-rooted inequalities but also contemporary systemic procedural and distributive injustices in material, human, and social-political capital. Non-Northern colleagues in particular critically reflected on how these inequalities and injustices are amplified by Northern hegemonies in social, institutional, disciplinary, economic, and political systems. Discussion focuses on the implications of these results for social psychologists, social psychology as a discipline, and its situation within broader hierarchical systems and their intersectionalities.https://jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/jspp/article/view/8311social psychologyresearch practicesprecarityinequalitycolonialitysocial scienceacademia |
| spellingShingle | Fouad Bou Zeineddine Rim Saab Barbara Lášticová Arin H. Ayanian Anna Kende “Unavailable, Insecure, and Very Poorly Paid”: Global Difficulties and Inequalities in Conducting Social Psychological Research Journal of Social and Political Psychology social psychology research practices precarity inequality coloniality social science academia |
| title | “Unavailable, Insecure, and Very Poorly Paid”: Global Difficulties and Inequalities in Conducting Social Psychological Research |
| title_full | “Unavailable, Insecure, and Very Poorly Paid”: Global Difficulties and Inequalities in Conducting Social Psychological Research |
| title_fullStr | “Unavailable, Insecure, and Very Poorly Paid”: Global Difficulties and Inequalities in Conducting Social Psychological Research |
| title_full_unstemmed | “Unavailable, Insecure, and Very Poorly Paid”: Global Difficulties and Inequalities in Conducting Social Psychological Research |
| title_short | “Unavailable, Insecure, and Very Poorly Paid”: Global Difficulties and Inequalities in Conducting Social Psychological Research |
| title_sort | unavailable insecure and very poorly paid global difficulties and inequalities in conducting social psychological research |
| topic | social psychology research practices precarity inequality coloniality social science academia |
| url | https://jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/jspp/article/view/8311 |
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