Book contents
- Good Science
- Good Science
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Clearing the Ground
- Part II Good Science
- 4 What Scientists Do
- 5 Justification
- 6 An Open Disciplinary Politics
- 7 A Committed Research Praxis
- Part III Charting the Moral Geography of Psychological Research
- Book part
- References
- Index
7 - A Committed Research Praxis
from Part II - Good Science
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 January 2022
- Good Science
- Good Science
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Clearing the Ground
- Part II Good Science
- 4 What Scientists Do
- 5 Justification
- 6 An Open Disciplinary Politics
- 7 A Committed Research Praxis
- Part III Charting the Moral Geography of Psychological Research
- Book part
- References
- Index
Summary
In Chapter 7, I describe a committed research praxis where scientists strive to articulate the community-level value commitments that define good science, and to evaluate the degree to which particular scientific activities and products reflect those commitments. I argue that one primary way for psychologists to engage in this sort of committed praxis is by asking questions together in a place. That is, we can subject our work to insistent moral attention through collective and locally situated forms of reflection and responsibility. I suggest that these forms could include reflexivity, transparency, participatory and community-oriented research practices, political, historical, and material analyses of our research traditions and products, resistance to overgeneralized and “scaled” forms of neo-liberal management, and other practices that help anchor research work to the local and communal commitments that justify it.
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- Good SciencePsychological Inquiry as Everyday Moral Practice, pp. 74 - 86Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022