Call for abstracts, Lab GRePS, Université Lumière Lyon 2 Lyon, 16th &17th october

Societal psychology wishes to renew with a psychology whose aim is to understand our environment as it is experienced outside the lab, in our daily lives. To do this, societal psychology engages in analysing social phenomena as they are shaped by the conflict between the individual and the collective (Himmelweit & Gaskell, 1990). Traditional approaches in the social sciences focus either on the individual or on the collective level, resulting in some kind of reductionisms when it comes to explaining complex social phenomena. Also, societal psychology can play a major role in understanding the different crises and transformations faced by our society: ecological, professional, technological, or health. However, methodological challenges are posed by the articulation of the collective and the individual levels which societal psychology calls for. Social psychology and organizational psychology certainly have the potential to address these challenges (see for example Doise, 1980 et Doise & Valentim, 2015), but other disciplines in psychology and in the social sciences have made relevant propositions. Moreover, the issue of multidisciplinarity can also appear as a methodological challenge.

More specifically, the colloquium will address the following methodological issues:
o What kind of methodological approaches allow the articulation of the different levels of analysis?
o Which issues are faced? What are the limits and the challenges regarding data collection and data analysis?
o Which epistemological and methodological ways of thinking might sustain a multidisciplinary approach?
o How can these approaches help to address the crisis and transformations our societies are facing?

Abstracts should be written in French or in English and should present the issue addressed, the method used and the main results. Abstracts are 300 words long, without references, and should be send in word format, times new roman 12. They must include a title and author(s) names, and the email address of the corresponding author. Submissions should be sent before the 31st of May 2024 on the platform: https://psysocietale.sciencesconf.org

 

Time plan:
April 2024: call for abstract
31 May 2024: abstract submission deadline
15 July: Notification of acceptance
16 & 17 October 2024: colloquium

 

Comité scientifique/scientific commitee
▪ Raquel Bertoldo, Université Aix-Marseille (France)
▪ Fabrice Buschini, Université de Bretagne Occidentale (France)
▪ Marjolaine Doumergue, Université Lumière Lyon 2 (France)
▪ Louis Galey, Université Paris Nanterre (France)
▪ Nikos Kalampalikis, Université Lumière Lyon 2 (France)
▪ Aurélie Landry, Université Grenoble Alpes (France)

▪ Laurent Licata, Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgique)
▪ Estelle Masson, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle (France)
▪ Christian Staerklé, Université de Lausanne (Suisse)
▪ Joaquim Pirez Valentim, Université de Coimbra (Portugal)
▪ Sabrina Rouat, Université Lumière Lyon 2 (France)
▪ Tania Zittoun, Université de Neuchâtel (Suisse)

 

Comité d’organisation/Organizers :
▪ Ataberk Bagci, Doctorant, Laboratoire GRePS
▪ Sabine Caillaud, MC-HDR, Laboratoire GRePS
▪ Florence Cros, MC, Laboratoire GRePS
▪ Caroline Da Silva, ATER, Laboratoire GRePS
▪ Emmie De La Torre, Doctorante, Laboratoire GRePS
▪ Valentina Dolce, MC, Laboratoire GRePS
▪ Valérie Haas, PR, Laboratoire GRePS