Moving beyond social categories by incorporating context in social psychological theory
Moving beyond social categories by incorporating context in social psychological theory
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10.1038/s44159-022-00079-3
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2022-09-01
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Lewis Jr，Neil A.
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Cikara，Mina;Martinez，Joel E.;Lewis Jr，Neil A.
在现象和探究领域中，社会心理学经常强调社会类别作为解释的单位。然而，类别的首要地位往往导致社会心理学家忽视了可能塑造人们心理和行为的背景特征，限制了社会心理学理论及其在现实世界中的应用。从这个角度来看，我们敦促研究人员超越类别，更深入地将背景纳入他们的理论。为了使这一呼吁可行，我们引入了社会建构主义、组合理论和动态系统作为替代框架，并举例说明这些框架如何为社会心理学研究提供信息。这项工作的特点并不是一个详尽的审查研究强调背景在心理学理论化，而是服务于强调替代基于类别或伪普遍框架的重要性。考虑上下文的社会科学必须关注心理、结构和物质特征（而不是分类）、它们的相互联系和时间动态。
Across phenomena and areas of inquiry, social psychology often emphasizes social categories as the unit of explanation. However, the primacy of categories often leads social psychologists to neglect contextual features that might shape people’s psychologies and behaviour, limiting social psychology theories and their real-world applications. In this Perspective, we urge researchers to move beyond categories and incorporate context more deeply into their theorizing. To make this call actionable, we introduce social constructionism, assemblage theory and dynamic systems as alternative frameworks and present examples of how these frameworks already inform social psychology research. The work featured is not an exhaustive review of research emphasizing context in psychological theorizing, but rather serves to highlight the importance of alternatives to category-based or pseudo-universal frameworks. Social science that considers context must focus on psychological, structural and material features (rather than classifications), their interconnections, and temporal dynamism.