Abstract

GARCIA ALCARAZ, Janet Gabriela  and  FLORES PALACIOS, María de Fátima. Symbolic Interactionism and Feminist Theory: A Psychosocial Approach to Signification and Inequality Systems. La ventana [online]. 2021, vol.6, n.54, pp.74-109.  Epub July 15, 2021. ISSN 1405-9436.

Transdisciplinary dialogue between feminist theories and other approaches is fundamental. The purpose of this paper is to present a theoretical reflection on the pertinence of incorporating the Feminist Standpoint Theory within the psychosocial perspective of Symbolic Interactionism developed from the Chicago School. We find this possibility at various convergence points between both stances: the opposition to positivism and scientificism; the interest in disarticulating essentialist conceptions; a situated, partial and processual vision of the construction of knowledge; the openness to implement various methods; and an investigative orientation based on intersubjectivity and experience. In this way, the possibilities of analysis and interpretation of one frame are neither accessory nor complementary to the other. Instead, we suggest thinking of a Feminist Symbolic Interactionism through the discussion of its epistemological, conceptual and methodological implications. What underlays in this theoretical positioning is an analytical and political enunciation platform that allows a critical psychosocial approach to inequality and other phenomena.

Keywords : Symbolic Interactionism; Feminist Theory; Social Psychology; inequality; gender.