International collaboration as construction of knowledge and its constraints.
In this paper I draw on Piaget and Habermas to underline the importance of the theoretical distinction between social relations of constraint and social relations of cooperation for reflecting upon inter-institutional projects. I argue that the socio-cultural approach to collaboration has some important limitations that restrict ideological critic and emancipatory research. The limitations of this approach can be located in its epistemological assumptions, a homogenized notion of culture and a weakness in articulating the intrapersonal, inter-personal, inter-group/positional and social representational/ideological levels of analysis. As an empirical example of this I discuss the Sloan centres for family research.
Psaltis
Charis
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Department of Psychology, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus. cpsaltis@ucy.ac.cy
D000884:Anthropology, Cultural; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D007391:International Cooperation; D019359:Knowledge; D011209:Power, Psychological; D011593:Psychology, Social / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012106:Research / Q000458:organization & administration*