Vance Granville Community College Psychology Discussion

by | Mar 5, 2023 | Humanities

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  • Colleagues: In what follows, I share general insights and a sort of thought process or mental model on how you all might approach qualitative research design. Happy to discuss further ANY of what follows by answering whatever questions you have here and/or meeting via Zoom at a time that works for us both.read3.png

    1. Play the role of a social scientist whose research draws on and contributes to the critical psychological science of thinking and reasoning. This means three things. First, you are centrally concerned with understanding the operation of the mind. And, second, your concern is a social justice concern, which means you approach research with power, privilege, and oppression as your guide. Third, these approach means you are building a mental model that visualizes a relationship between a human perpetrator and human target and then imagining or visualizing situations in which you can “see” both people engage each other during the interpersonal moments that join them. Both minds are operating from bias.
    2. Identify a wicked problem. First, swap out the word wicked with the word social and work forward from the understanding that we are using wicked and social as synonyms for the kind of problem our critical qualitative research ultimately seeks to address. Social problems should be narrow enough to contextualize, but still broad enough to present as social pathologies OR as the selective perception of a dark-side collective mental harmony puzzle (modified from So in TEDx Talks, 2015) OR, guided by Fernbach (in TEDx Talks, 2017), as a consequence of the contagious understanding that flows inside knowledge communities. Rather than identifying your wicked/social problem as “poverty,” for example, identify it as the racial child poverty gap. Poverty is HARD to contextualize. Narrowing poverty to an intersection where the lived experiences of children and racialized communities come into view is MUCH much much easier to contextualize.
    3. Ask yourself what dark-side bias works to justify, explain away, ignore, refute, and otherwise marginalize and lampoon the lived experience of child poverty. You can start with a “neutral bias” like social stereotyping and move from stereotype reliance (in Bodenhausen et al., 1999) toward the dark side of humanity. Once in the dark-side, you can think about how stereotype reliance might take form more specifically as everyday racism (Essed, 2002) or offensive mechanisms (Pierce, 1970) or color-blindness as a legitimizing ideology (Eberhardt, 2020; Neville, 2009) or white racial affect (Spanierman & Clark, 2021).
    4. Come back to your mental model to “see” the a relationship between perpetrator and target as it most likely manifests through interpersonal moments to normalize your wicked/social problem. From what you have learned in your life so far about people in the world and from the basic context you create for your wicked problem, hypothesize what sort of person most likely perpetrates your dark-side bias and who is on its receiving end. Going back to the example I am developing here, ask yourself: How might the specific dark-side bias you identified work to to leave the selective perception of the perpetrator’s mental harmony puzzle undisturbed and, as such, leave them denying or justifying or even laughing at the experience of people living with the wicked/social problem you contextualized?
    5. Make a decision: Are you interested more in the operation of the perpetrator’s mind or the target’s mind? Choose one!
    6. Make a decision: Figure out where in the social world of lived experience you will find people who are the most likely perpetrators or who more likely are the targets of the perpetrator and then, using the Google machine, figure out what for-profit company (e.g., pick one, any one), community organization (e.g., Catholic Charities USA (Links to an external site.) or Robin Hood (Links to an external site.) or Soles 4 Souls (Links to an external site.)), or government body (e.g., U.S. Department of Agriculture because at its operational level government workers administer SNAP) do you think might offer a pool of potential voluntary research participants who either are perpetrators or targets in your mental model.
    7. Make a decision: What do you want to know about the operation of the mind as it relies on a dark-side bias (perpetrator OR target) from the research participants you recruit? Which one of three critical qualitative research methods is best suited to collect these insights: critical narrative analysis (Souto-Manning, 2014) or cHEARTS (Chioneso et al., 2020) or participatory action research (Hassan in Vera Institute of Justice, 2017)?

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