Qualitative research and critical social psychology in Chile today: Situated knowledge and political action. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung

Abstract: Diverse approaches to qualitative research have been developed in Chile, one of them being that of critical social psychology. One of the characteristics of this perspective has been to develop a viewpoint that incorporates the perspectives of the social actors, considered as agents, and so to assume a situated view of knowledge, from which the aspiration to scientific objectivity and neutrality is renounced. This text will review critical social psychology's central characteristics and its relationship to qualitative research. A process of research will then be described which con-cerned memories of the coup d'état and the military dictatorship in Chile, and which developed into an intervention in this area