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<p>In this article, I reflect on the pivotal contributions of Kenneth Gergen’s (J Personal Soc Psychol 26:309–320, 1973) legendary work, “Social Psychology as History” in developing constructionist psychology. I highlight how his article acts as an invitation to fellow psychologists and other social scientists to address structural violence (i.e., adversities caused by socio-economic policies as well as social hierarchies such as race, ethnicity, gender, religion, caste, etc.) and participate in re-building <i>solidarity</i> and <i>healing</i> particularly among the marginalized populations through the use of qualitative inquiry. I illustrate this using my reflections on an ethnographic study on structural violence in Nandigram, India. As a prelude to such illustration, I make brief presentations on how his article (a) served as one of the major works that revolutionized psychological science toward methodological pluralism and qualitative inquiry and (b) accentuated the need to center the marginalized voices with inspiration from the social movements of the 1960s, especially the Civil Rights movement.</p>

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Revisiting the Social Constructionist Foundation of Qualitative Inquiry: Toward Solidarity and Healing Inspired by the Civil Rights Movement

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    2025年12月20日

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  • Kumar Ravi Priya

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In this article, I reflect on the pivotal contributions of Kenneth Gergen’s (J Personal Soc Psychol 26:309–320, 1973) legendary work, “Social Psychology as History” in developing constructionist psychology. I highlight how his article acts as an invitation to fellow psychologists and other social scientists to address structural violence (i.e., adversities caused by socio-economic policies as well as social hierarchies such as race, ethnicity, gender, religion, caste, etc.) and participate in re-building solidarity and healing particularly among the marginalized populations through the use of qualitative inquiry. I illustrate this using my reflections on an ethnographic study on structural violence in Nandigram, India. As a prelude to such illustration, I make brief presentations on how his article (a) served as one of the major works that revolutionized psychological science toward methodological pluralism and qualitative inquiry and (b) accentuated the need to center the marginalized voices with inspiration from the social movements of the 1960s, especially the Civil Rights movement.