This article looks at psychological theory and research that aims to capture and
study human diversity in new ways. Human diversity, increasingly framed in terms
of intersectionality ??? focusing the mutual interrelatedness of
central social categorizations such as gender, ethnicity/race, social
class and sexualit(ies) ??? has recently come more forcefully onto the
research agenda for psychologists. The article argues that for psychological
research to be able to usefully theorize and study diversity in everyday lives,
it needs to find new ways to incorporate the impact on individual lives of both
large and small sociocultural, and sometimes political, contexts into research.
Gender studies within psychology, as well as cross-disciplinary gender studies,
have developed bodies of theory and empirical research about many diversity
issues that can give helpful contributions to such developments of psychological
theory and research.
- Content Type Journal Article
- Category article
- Pages 88-114
- DOI 10.1027/1901-2276/a000034
- Authors
- Eva Magnusson, Professor of Psychology and Gender Studies, Department of Psychology,
Ume?? university
- Eva Magnusson, Professor of Psychology and Gender Studies, Department of Psychology,
- Journal Nordic Psychology
- Online ISSN 1901-2276
- Print ISSN 1901-2276
- Journal Volume Volume 63
- Journal Issue Volume 63, Number 2 / June 2011