Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Gender and culture in psychology: a prologue
- 2 Categories and social categorization
- 3 Laying the foundation
- 4 Theories of gender in psychology: an overview
- 5 A turn to interpretation
- 6 Doing interpretative psychological research
- 7 Discursive approaches to studying gender and culture
- 8 Gender and culture in children's identity development
- 9 Identity and inequality in heterosexual couples
- 10 Coercion, violence, and consent in heterosexual encounters
- 11 Women's eating problems and the cultural meanings of body size
- 12 Psychological suffering in social and cultural context
- 13 Feminism and gender in psychotherapy
- 14 Comparing women and men: a retrospective on sex-difference research
- 15 Psychology's place in society, and society's place in psychology
- References
- Index
7 - Discursive approaches to studying gender and culture
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Gender and culture in psychology: a prologue
- 2 Categories and social categorization
- 3 Laying the foundation
- 4 Theories of gender in psychology: an overview
- 5 A turn to interpretation
- 6 Doing interpretative psychological research
- 7 Discursive approaches to studying gender and culture
- 8 Gender and culture in children's identity development
- 9 Identity and inequality in heterosexual couples
- 10 Coercion, violence, and consent in heterosexual encounters
- 11 Women's eating problems and the cultural meanings of body size
- 12 Psychological suffering in social and cultural context
- 13 Feminism and gender in psychotherapy
- 14 Comparing women and men: a retrospective on sex-difference research
- 15 Psychology's place in society, and society's place in psychology
- References
- Index
Summary
Many psychologists interested in questions about gender and culture embrace discursive psychology, the subject of this chapter. We open the discussion of discursive approaches with an examination of the terms discourse and discourses. Then we present some central theoretical concepts in discursive psychology, focusing on the ideas of critical discursive psychologists. Finally, we describe a number of tools that discursive psychologists use to analyze talk and social interaction.
Discourse and discourses in psychology
The word discourse comes from the Latin discursus, which originally meant “running to and fro” but eventually came to mean “conversation.” Over time, the word has been used in several different ways, not least by scholars. In this section, we describe the two meanings used most frequently by discursive psychologists. They are usually indicated by discourse in the singular and discourses in the plural.
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- Gender and Culture in PsychologyTheories and Practices, pp. 70 - 85Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012