Cutting Through False Dualisms: Transformative Social Change as a Transmodern Moral Framework for Critical Psychological Research

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

Robert K.Beshara¹ 

关键词: critical psychological research;    morality;    transformative social change;    transmodernity;    engaged Buddhism;   

DOI  :  10.1177/1609406917705956

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

In this article, I will use the two truths doctrine from Buddhism to explicate transformative social change as a transmodern moral framework for critical psychological research. The two truths doctrine, a teaching from the Madhyamaka, or Middle Way, school of Mahāyāna Buddhism founded by Nāgārjuna, nondualistically collapses the ontology of transformation (absolute truth) and the epistemology of social change (relative truth) in the name of soteriology. At their core, dualistic problems and reductionist solutions are based upon the reification of concepts, which can result in devastating effects, such as the objectification (and oppression) of research participants—not mentioning moral relativism. This article attempts to offer a transmodern moral framework for qualitative and theoretical researchers in critical psychology outside the confines of the modern–postmodern debate.

【 授权许可】

CC BY-NC