Cultural Blindness: The Price We Pay for Theory Neglect in Psychology

Louise Sundararajan

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Chapter 16 Cultural Blindness: The Price We Pay for Theory Neglect in Psychology

In: Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 32

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Pages:: 302–322

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004505315_018

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Abstract

It is argued that cultural blindness is symptomatic of a culture-free science that contributes to the theory crisis in psychology by privileging automatic inference at the expense of the phenomenon and its subjective interpretations. For illustration, the peer review process of a paper that deviated from the “best practice” of a culture-free science is analyzed to identify the need for psychology to put culture and theory back in the picture, if it is to measure up to its ethical obligations to confront the racial and cultural biases in the profession.

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Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 32

Lesser Heard Voices in Studies of Religion

Series: Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, Volume: 32

Cover Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 32

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004505315

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 12 Apr 2022

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Special section 1 Religion or Belief in Higher Education

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Special section 2 Cultural Blindness in Psychology

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Special section 3 Religious Authority in Practice in Contemporary Evangelical, Charismatic and Pentecostal Christianity

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