title: Gulliver's Eggs: Why Methods are not an Issue of Qualitative Research in Cultural Psychology.
abstract: The future of qualitative methods regards the kind of object cultural psychology is interested and the kind of questions it can ask. I propose that the object should be experiencing, understood as a complex whole, consisting of lived-by action and counter-action, that is contextual inter-action with the world in the form of an experiencing subject and otherness. The kind of questions cultural psychology can ask is instead related to the epistemological status attributed to both researcher and participant. Probably few scholars such as Vygotsky, Piaget and Lewin understood to what extent experiencing is always changing, because the relationship between mind, alterity and culture is co-generative. This also implies a relativization and a decentralization of the psychology's perspective. Finally, I provide some examples from the history of psychology and some suggestions to work at the level of such complexity by using methods that can work with complex objects such as products of human activity (e.g., art, literature, architecture, etc.).
authors: Marie Curie Fellow, Niels Bohr Centre for Cultural Psychology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark, luca@hum.aau.dk.
authors: Luca
authors: L
authors: Tateo
mesh_terms: D005008:Ethnopsychology / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D036301:Qualitative Research
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