Author
Çelebi, E., Acar, Yasemin Gülsüm
Publication Date
2017
Publication Place
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Turkish Psychologists Association
Type
Other
Language
Turkish
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Library
Özyeğin University
Library Asset ID
1301-9961
Record ID
b02d93bd-4d0c-4a04-9d7d-32d5c60e98bd
Library Location
Psychology
Date
2017
Sample Text
The journey of this special issue started with a question: "How much and how do we, as psychologists, understand the basic social problems of our country, what solutions do we offer and how do we explain these solutions?" In other words, where are we as psychologists in producing knowledge on issues such as the Kurdish issue specific to our country and the Gezi protests, as well as phenomena such as discrimination, ethnopolitical minority rights, hate speech, racism, collective action, gender, political ideologies, which are widely covered in the psychology literature and are the subject of thousands of studies? What are the prejudices and obstacles in choosing sociopolitical phenomena as an academic field of study in the field of psychology? The reasons why there are not enough studies on these issues include the lack of adequate adoption of cultural or intercultural approaches, difficulties in conducting studies, ethics committee permissions, difficulties in reaching minority group participants and difficulties in finding funding. In addition, the pressure, intimidation and censorship practices applied in the public sphere and specifically in the academic field in Türkiye also determine which subjects will produce information in our field and which issues will be taboo and ignored. At this point, the special issue set out from a perspective that aims to publish Turkey-based empirical studies that use social psychology approaches, theories and methods in order to fill this gap.
