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    TOWARD A UNIFIED PARADIGM IN SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY:

    A REFLECTION PAPER

    Submitted by:

    KHRISTALYN V. FRAGINAL
    PhD Student, Development Communication

    Submitted to:

    PROF. EVELIE P. SERRANO


    Professor, CED 232: Advanced Social Psychology
    INTRODUCTION

    It will not be a rare event that people get together and work together, it is simply because
    working together and having someone to work with is such a good idea and it sounds great.
    However, working together does not work all the time most especially when the other party or
    the other person involved did not find any benefits for doing it so. Same thing goes when we are
    talking about an integration of paradigm or unifying a different concepts or frameworks to
    another. We have this thinking that if we do something good to someone that someone should
    also do something for us. For paradigm integration I think same principle or concept has been
    applied.

    Even on the time of Thomas Kuhn (1962), an integration or a scientific revolution talking about
    the paradigm unification have been already introduced. This inspires the social sciences to the
    methodological paradigm of unity to stimulate and integrate research projects to find out the
    social mechanism and factors what develop the human potentiality for mutual co-operation,
    helping each other, sharing the benefits with others, and for more solidarity-oriented human
    behavior in various social environments (Biela, 2009).

    To do a unification in social psychology, one should know firsts what social psychology is?

    WHY INTEGRATE?: TWO PARADIGMS ARE BETTER THAN ONE, AND MULTIPLE
    PARADIGMS ARE EVEN BETTER

    It has been said that Two heads are Better than One," this saying I think is applicable when we
    are talking about paradigm integration for most of the time people need opinions from other
    people to make things work properly for them.

    In 2001, a call for an integrative paradigm or a unified paradigm in social psychology became a
    big talked in the field for the last decades. Kenrick (2001), is the one who called for an
    integrative paradigm, he explained that by doing a unification in social psychology, its best or
    ultimate reward will be a comprehensive paradigm in psychology and a fully integrating diverse
    empirical findings and mini-theories via the blended insights of evolutionary psychology,
    cognitive science and dynamical systems theory.

    Based from Kenricks discussions it only means that by integrating a different paradigm from
    another paradigm it can have a better impact not only on the methodological process of each
    field but also it will be resulted to a better results that would benefit both fields that needs to
    unify.

    This idea is similarly closed to what Breakwell (1993) also thinks about integration of
    paradigms, according to him by the theoretical integration of calls for a parallel diversity of
    empirical approaches it would result to a more diverse paradigm that would be useful for every
    fields. In his study he also mentioned that there is actually an advantages for the linkage or
    integration of social-identity and social representation theory and it both theory will benefit from
    one another for it is not one-sided. The social representation theory cannot explain why a
    particular social representation takes the form that it does and that is where the social identity
    theory could be at help to describe the processes which might be a t work both in shaping the
    form of the representation and then determining the work it is made to do the aforementioned
    problem of social representation (Breakwell, 1993).

    In relation to what Kenricks and Breakwells discussion about the advantages or benefits that we
    can get through integration of paradigm, Biela, (2009), mentioned that by incorporating the
    paradigm it seems to have a lot of methodological benefits. It can integrate research projects in
    the social sciences towards discovering what social factors help people to learn to be more
    solidaristic, co-operative and helpful to one another. And lastly through integration, another
    methodological benefit is to develop more advanced methods to reach social integration in a
    more deep background and a more multi-dimensional spectrum. That even though, some scholars
    didnt see the connections between two concepts at first, through integration, they can see that
    there is a considerable overlapping of interests for different paradigms so it would be helpful in
    understanding human behavior (Diewald, M. and Mayer K. U., 2009).

    Lastly, views on matters of unity and unification make a difference in both science and
    philosophy. In science they provide strong heuristic or methodological guidance and even
    justification for hypotheses, projects, and specific goals. Philosophically, assumptions about
    unification help choose what sort of philosophical questions to pursue and what target areas to
    explore (Cat, 2017).

    Based from the different benefits that have been mentioned above, we can easily say that people/
    scholars in the field have the power to do multi-tasking and they have the freewill or the
    capability to switch from one method to another method. And I believe that by integrating
    multiple methods in social psychology it can lead to a more empirical methods that would be
    helpful not only for one particular field specifically in social psychology for it deals with human
    behavior and it can bring new concepts to the field but also it might be useful to another field.

    To sum it up, integrating paradigms in social psychology is needed for it can results to a very
    well defined results and findings, approaches, and a well diversified concepts that would be
    helpful for every one to merely understand the human behavior. Thats why as a sociologists we
    may need to present the interconnections between two or more concepts that showcase the
    theoretical evidences that every one can benefit from the integration that would going to happen.

    REFERENCES:

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    psychology.html
    Breakwell, G. M. (1993). Integrating paradigms, methodological implications. Empirical
    approaches to social representations, 180-201. Retrieved from http://psych1.lse.ac.uk/
    psr/PSR2011/20_16.pdf

    Cat, J. (2017). "The Unity of Science", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2017
    Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), forthcoming URL = <https://plato.stanford.edu/
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    Diewald, M. and Mayer K. U. (2009). The Sociology of the Life Course and Life Span
    Psychology: A discussion paper published under DIW Berlin. Retrieved from http://
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    Mather, R. D. (2007). Toward a unified social psychology: The integrative social paradigm.
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