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The aim of the present paper is not to contribute toward increased social psychological knowledge, but rather to increase our uncertainty with respect to the nature of such knowledge. There seems to be among us an almost unanimous discontent with current “minitheories”; yet at the same time there appears a surprising complacency with respect to tradition-bound philosophical premises for research and theory construction. The novelty of presumedly novel paradigms is hence largely restricted to proposals for improvements and/or eclectic integration of already established theoretical models, and partial empirical corroboration of such minimodels is interpreted as evidence that we are, after all, on the right track. Why shouldn’t we, then, continue our trade along the paths we have pursued so far, with sharpened methodological tools and refined theories, yet with an attitude of agnostic innocence or proud independence toward rebels who question its philosophical foundation?
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Rommetveit, R. (1976). On “Emancipatory” Social Psychology. In: Strickland, L.H., Aboud, F.E., Gergen, K.J. (eds) Social Psychology in Transition. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8765-1_8
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