“Unavailable, insecure, and very poorly paid”: Global difficulties and inequalities in conducting social psychological research
Author(s) / Creator(s)
Bou Zeineddine, Fouad
Saab, Rim
Lášticová, Barbara
Ayanian, Arin H.
Kende, Anna
Abstract / Description
This paper offers an exploration of research production in social psychology as a global endeavor from the point of view of Anglophone social psychologists (N = 232) across 64 countries. We examine social psychologists’ beliefs regarding the difficulties in conducting research in social psychology and the inequalities that they report between the Global North, South and East Europe, and the Global South. Across all regions, we found pervasive critical awareness of obstacles to conducting research – including underinvestment in the field, precarious and counter-productive labor conditions, and excessive and biased disciplinary standards. However, we also found that colleagues outside the Global North reported quantitatively and qualitatively larger obstacles to research. These included well-known historically-rooted inequalities but also contemporary systemic procedural and distributive injustices in material, human, and social-political capital. Non-Northern colleagues in particular critically reflected on how these inequalities and injustices are amplified by Northern hegemonies in social, institutional, disciplinary, economic, and political systems. Discussion focuses on the implications of these results for social psychologists, social psychology as a discipline, and its situation within broader hierarchical systems and their intersectionalities.
Keyword(s)
social psychology research practices precarity inequality coloniality social science academia علم النفس الاجتماعي ممارسات البحث الهشاشة الوظيفية عدم المساواة الاستعمار الفكري العلوم الاجتماعية الأوساط الأكاديمية sociálna psychológia výskumné praktiky neistota nerovnosti kolonialita sociálne vedy akadémia psicología social prácticas de investigación precariedad desigualdad colonialidad ciencia social academiaPersistent Identifier
Date of first publication
2022-12-16
Journal title
Journal of Social and Political Psychology
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10
Issue
2
Page numbers
723–742
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PsychOpen GOLD
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Bou Zeineddine, F., Saab, R., Lášticová, B., Ayanian, A. H., & Kende, A. (2022). “Unavailable, insecure, and very poorly paid”: Global difficulties and inequalities in conducting social psychological research. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 10(2), 723-742. https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.8311
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Bou Zeineddine, Fouad
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Saab, Rim
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Lášticová, Barbara
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Ayanian, Arin H.
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Kende, Anna
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Date of first publication2022-12-16
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Abstract / DescriptionThis paper offers an exploration of research production in social psychology as a global endeavor from the point of view of Anglophone social psychologists (N = 232) across 64 countries. We examine social psychologists’ beliefs regarding the difficulties in conducting research in social psychology and the inequalities that they report between the Global North, South and East Europe, and the Global South. Across all regions, we found pervasive critical awareness of obstacles to conducting research – including underinvestment in the field, precarious and counter-productive labor conditions, and excessive and biased disciplinary standards. However, we also found that colleagues outside the Global North reported quantitatively and qualitatively larger obstacles to research. These included well-known historically-rooted inequalities but also contemporary systemic procedural and distributive injustices in material, human, and social-political capital. Non-Northern colleagues in particular critically reflected on how these inequalities and injustices are amplified by Northern hegemonies in social, institutional, disciplinary, economic, and political systems. Discussion focuses on the implications of these results for social psychologists, social psychology as a discipline, and its situation within broader hierarchical systems and their intersectionalities.en_US
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Publication statuspublishedVersion
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CitationBou Zeineddine, F., Saab, R., Lášticová, B., Ayanian, A. H., & Kende, A. (2022). “Unavailable, insecure, and very poorly paid”: Global difficulties and inequalities in conducting social psychological research. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 10(2), 723-742. https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.8311en_US
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ISSN2195-3325
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Persistent Identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12034/7983
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Persistent Identifierhttps://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.12442
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Language of contenteng
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PublisherPsychOpen GOLD
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Keyword(s)social psychologyen_US
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Keyword(s)research practicesen_US
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Keyword(s)precarityen_US
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Keyword(s)inequalityen_US
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Keyword(s)colonialityen_US
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Keyword(s)social scienceen_US
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Keyword(s)academiaen_US
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Keyword(s)علم النفس الاجتماعي
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Keyword(s)ممارسات البحث
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Keyword(s)الهشاشة الوظيفية
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Keyword(s)عدم المساواة
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Keyword(s)الاستعمار الفكري
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Keyword(s)العلوم الاجتماعية
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Keyword(s)الأوساط الأكاديمية
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Keyword(s)sociálna psychológia
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Keyword(s)výskumné praktiky
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Keyword(s)neistota
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Keyword(s)nerovnosti
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Keyword(s)kolonialita
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Keyword(s)sociálne vedy
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Keyword(s)akadémia
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Keyword(s)psicología sociales_ES
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Keyword(s)prácticas de investigaciónes_ES
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Keyword(s)precariedades_ES
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Keyword(s)desigualdades_ES
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Keyword(s)colonialidades_ES
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Keyword(s)ciencia sociales_ES
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Keyword(s)academiaes_ES
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Dewey Decimal Classification number(s)150
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Title“Unavailable, insecure, and very poorly paid”: Global difficulties and inequalities in conducting social psychological researchen_US
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Issue2
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Journal titleJournal of Social and Political Psychology
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Page numbers723–742
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Volume10
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