Overempowered? Diversity-Focused Research with Gender/Sex and Sexual Majorities

IF 3.6 2区 心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Sari M. van Anders, Zach C. Schudson, Will J. Beischel, Emma C. Abed, Aki M. Gormezano, E. Dibble
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Abstract

Diversity-focused research can provide important insights about gender/sex and sexual diversity, including in relation to oppression and privilege. To do so, it needs to critically engage with power and include minoritized and majoritized participants. But, the critical methods guiding this are typically aimed at empowering marginalized groups and may “overempower” majority participants. Here, we discuss three diversity-focused research projects about gender/sex and sexual diversity where our use of critical methods overempowered majority participants in ways that reinforced their privilege. We detail how diversity-focused research approaches thus need to be “majority-situating”: attending to and managing the privilege and power that majority participants carry to research. Yet, we also lay out how diversity-focused research still needs to be “minority-inclusive”: validating, welcoming, and empowering to people from marginalized social locations. We discuss these approaches working synergistically; minority-inclusive methods can also be majority-situating, providing majorities with opportunities for growth, learning, and seeing that they—and not just “others”—are socially situated. We conclude by laying out what a diversity-focused research program might look like that includes both majority-situating and minority-inclusive approaches, to work towards a more just and empirical scholarship that does not lead to majorities who are even more overempowered.
过度授权?以性别/性和性专业为重点的多元化研究
以多样性为重点的研究可以提供关于性别/性和性多样性的重要见解,包括与压迫和特权有关的见解。要做到这一点,它需要批判性地与权力接触,并包括少数和多数参与者。但是,指导这一点的关键方法通常旨在赋予边缘化群体权力,并可能“高估”大多数参与者的权力。在这里,我们讨论了三个以多样性为重点的关于性别/性和性多样性的研究项目,在这些项目中,我们使用的批判性方法以增强大多数参与者的特权的方式过度激励了他们。因此,我们详细介绍了以多样性为重点的研究方法需要如何“多数情境”:关注和管理大多数参与者在研究中享有的特权和权力。然而,我们也阐述了以多样性为重点的研究仍然需要“包容少数群体”:对来自边缘化社会位置的人进行验证、欢迎和赋权。我们讨论了这些协同工作的方法;包容少数群体的方法也可以是基于多数群体的,为多数群体提供成长、学习的机会,并看到他们——而不仅仅是“其他人”——处于社会地位。最后,我们阐述了一个以多样性为重点的研究项目可能是什么样子的,它既包括多数人的处境,也包括少数人的包容性方法,以努力实现一种更公正、更实证的学术,而不会导致多数人的权力更大。
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Review of General Psychology
Review of General Psychology PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-
CiteScore
7.60
自引率
4.80%
发文量
26
期刊介绍: Review of General Psychology seeks to publish innovative theoretical, conceptual, or methodological articles that cross-cut the traditional subdisciplines of psychology. The journal contains articles that advance theory, evaluate and integrate research literatures, provide a new historical analysis, or discuss new methodological developments in psychology as a whole. Review of General Psychology is especially interested in articles that bridge gaps between subdisciplines in psychology as well as related fields or that focus on topics that transcend traditional subdisciplinary boundaries.
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