Dealing with Wicked Problems: Conducting a Causal Layered Analysis of Complex Social Psychological Issues
Causal layered analysis (CLA) is an emerging qualitative methodology adopted in the discipline of planning as an approach to deconstruct complex social issues. With psychologists increasingly confronted with complex, and “wicked” social and community issues, we argue that the discipline of psycholog...
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| description | Causal layered analysis (CLA) is an emerging qualitative methodology adopted in the discipline of planning as an approach to deconstruct complex social issues. With psychologists increasingly confronted with complex, and “wicked” social and community issues, we argue that the discipline of psychology would benefit from adopting CLA as an analytical method. Until now, the application of CLA for data interpretation has generally been poorly defined and overwhelming for the novice. In this paper we propose an approach to CLA that provides a method for the deconstruction and analysis of complex social psychological issues. We introduce CLA as a qualitative methodology well suited for psychology, introduce the epistemological foundations of CLA, define a space for it adoption within the discipline, and, outline the steps for conducting a CLA using an applied example. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-331752017-09-13T15:30:00Z Dealing with Wicked Problems: Conducting a Causal Layered Analysis of Complex Social Psychological Issues Bishop, Brian John Dzidic, Peta Contextualism Complexity Causal layered analysis Methodology Causal layered analysis (CLA) is an emerging qualitative methodology adopted in the discipline of planning as an approach to deconstruct complex social issues. With psychologists increasingly confronted with complex, and “wicked” social and community issues, we argue that the discipline of psychology would benefit from adopting CLA as an analytical method. Until now, the application of CLA for data interpretation has generally been poorly defined and overwhelming for the novice. In this paper we propose an approach to CLA that provides a method for the deconstruction and analysis of complex social psychological issues. We introduce CLA as a qualitative methodology well suited for psychology, introduce the epistemological foundations of CLA, define a space for it adoption within the discipline, and, outline the steps for conducting a CLA using an applied example. 2014 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/33175 10.1007/s10464-013-9611-5 Springer New York LLC restricted |
| spellingShingle | Contextualism Complexity Causal layered analysis Methodology Bishop, Brian John Dzidic, Peta Dealing with Wicked Problems: Conducting a Causal Layered Analysis of Complex Social Psychological Issues |
| title | Dealing with Wicked Problems: Conducting a Causal Layered Analysis of Complex Social Psychological Issues |
| title_full | Dealing with Wicked Problems: Conducting a Causal Layered Analysis of Complex Social Psychological Issues |
| title_fullStr | Dealing with Wicked Problems: Conducting a Causal Layered Analysis of Complex Social Psychological Issues |
| title_full_unstemmed | Dealing with Wicked Problems: Conducting a Causal Layered Analysis of Complex Social Psychological Issues |
| title_short | Dealing with Wicked Problems: Conducting a Causal Layered Analysis of Complex Social Psychological Issues |
| title_sort | dealing with wicked problems: conducting a causal layered analysis of complex social psychological issues |
| topic | Contextualism Complexity Causal layered analysis Methodology |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/33175 |