TY - JOUR
T1 - The Importance of Research About Research on Culture
T2 - A Call for Meta-research on Culture
AU - Causadias, José M.
AU - Korous, Kevin M.
AU - Cahill, Karina M.
AU - Rea-Sandin, Gianna
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 American Psychological Association
PY - 2021/12/30
Y1 - 2021/12/30
N2 - Objectives: It is crucial to examine how research on culture is fueled by assumptions, policies, and practices. The goal of this article is to promote meta-research on culture, the critical study of how investigations on culture are performed and interpreted, howscientific knowledge about culture is produced and transmitted, and the importance of scrutinizing assumptions, policies, and practices in a way that challenge views of minoritized groups as deviant and pathological. Method: We define key concepts, such as meta-research, culture, and meta-research on culture. Results: We approach cultural research as a system of people (researchers, participants), places (academic institutions, journals), practices (sampling, comparing groups), and power (legitimizing some groups as normative and others as deviant). We discuss assumptions, policies, and practices, and review landmark studies and methods.
AB - Objectives: It is crucial to examine how research on culture is fueled by assumptions, policies, and practices. The goal of this article is to promote meta-research on culture, the critical study of how investigations on culture are performed and interpreted, howscientific knowledge about culture is produced and transmitted, and the importance of scrutinizing assumptions, policies, and practices in a way that challenge views of minoritized groups as deviant and pathological. Method: We define key concepts, such as meta-research, culture, and meta-research on culture. Results: We approach cultural research as a system of people (researchers, participants), places (academic institutions, journals), practices (sampling, comparing groups), and power (legitimizing some groups as normative and others as deviant). We discuss assumptions, policies, and practices, and review landmark studies and methods.
KW - Culture
KW - Meta-research
KW - Meta-research on culture
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U2 - 10.1037/cdp0000516
DO - 10.1037/cdp0000516
M3 - Article
C2 - 34968094
AN - SCOPUS:85123199923
SN - 1099-9809
VL - 29
SP - 85
EP - 95
JO - Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology
JF - Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology
IS - 1
ER -