Ambiguity and the dialogical self: In search for a dialogical psychology

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Autor(a) principal: Ferreira, Tiago
Data de Publicação: 2014
Outros Autores: Salgado, João, Cunha, Carla
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.24/1563
Resumo: It is intuitively felt that ambiguity plays a crucial role in human beings’ everyday life and in psychologists’ theoretical and applied work. However, ambiguity remains essentially non-problematised in psychological science since its foundation. This article analyses positivist and social constructionist perspectives on ambiguity in the context of their epistemological and ontological fundamental assumptions. The relational thesis of social constructionism is further analysed and it is argued that it constitutes a “weak thesis” concerning the relational constitution of human beings. In the second part, a dialogical alternative is elaborated. In this perspective, ambiguity is placed in the context of relationship and both are brought to an ontological ground. Therefore, it is argued, ambiguity is a fundamental property of human experience and plays a fundamental role in the constitution of (inter)subjective processes. The impact of this thesis on dialogical perspective on self is elaborated.
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title Ambiguity and the dialogical self: In search for a dialogical psychology
spellingShingle Ambiguity and the dialogical self: In search for a dialogical psychology
Ferreira, Tiago
Dialogism
Meaning-making
title_short Ambiguity and the dialogical self: In search for a dialogical psychology
title_full Ambiguity and the dialogical self: In search for a dialogical psychology
title_fullStr Ambiguity and the dialogical self: In search for a dialogical psychology
title_full_unstemmed Ambiguity and the dialogical self: In search for a dialogical psychology
title_sort Ambiguity and the dialogical self: In search for a dialogical psychology
author Ferreira, Tiago
author_facet Ferreira, Tiago
Salgado, João
Cunha, Carla
author_role author
author2 Salgado, João
Cunha, Carla
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author
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Ferreira, Tiago
Salgado, João
Cunha, Carla
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Dialogism
Meaning-making
topic Dialogism
Meaning-making
description It is intuitively felt that ambiguity plays a crucial role in human beings’ everyday life and in psychologists’ theoretical and applied work. However, ambiguity remains essentially non-problematised in psychological science since its foundation. This article analyses positivist and social constructionist perspectives on ambiguity in the context of their epistemological and ontological fundamental assumptions. The relational thesis of social constructionism is further analysed and it is argued that it constitutes a “weak thesis” concerning the relational constitution of human beings. In the second part, a dialogical alternative is elaborated. In this perspective, ambiguity is placed in the context of relationship and both are brought to an ontological ground. Therefore, it is argued, ambiguity is a fundamental property of human experience and plays a fundamental role in the constitution of (inter)subjective processes. The impact of this thesis on dialogical perspective on self is elaborated.
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