Data and social justice

This chapter draws attention to the meaning of data and reality in social psychology, where everything is in the process, and one complements the other. Since social psychological data matters in the disciplinary and non-disciplinary domains, data handling and interpretations regarding the cause-and-effect nexus, best descriptions and claims of human subjectivities become vital to the disciplinary process. Social psychological enterprise is a political field where the role of structure and power give meaning to the data and hence constructs reality. The idea is to critically discuss the application of social categories as binaries driven by populist and majoritarian worldviews, and to situate the agenda for transformative social psychology.