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8 - Domain and Theory Choice

from Part III - Charting the Moral Geography of Psychological Research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 January 2022

Joshua W. Clegg
Affiliation:
John Jay College, CUNY
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In Chapter 8, I discuss some of the most salient moral questions, dilemmas, and duties involved in choosing a research community (and conversation) in which to participate. Conducting research in some area, I argue, is not so much a solitary domain choice as a process of becoming socialized to a particular community and to its values, languages, traditions, institutions, and ways of thinking, writing, and working. In some measure, this also means becoming responsible for those traditions and values. I also discuss the ways that participating in a research community involves building the relationships of trust and good faith upon which all science rests, a relational process requiring honesty, the nurturing of cooperative relationships, and other duties. I also emphasize the political, institutional, and economic forces that structure research communities and the necessity of active epistemic citizenship to transform these in ways that serve the collective values of those communities.

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Psychological Inquiry as Everyday Moral Practice
, pp. 91 - 99
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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