Roles, roots, and rifts: A rejoinder to Mahalik, Silverstein, and Hammond.

Abstract

It was a very pleasant surprise to be invited to contribute a paper to the Psychology of Men and Masculinity, outlining a Discursive Psychological (DP) approach to the study of men. Likewise, we are also grateful for the opportunity to engage in an extended discussion with a few of our contemporaries from 'across the Pond'. Goodness knows how hard it was for Ron Levant to come up with a short-list of academics who might be, in some way at least, receptive to the arguments we were advancing, but we would like to thank James Mahalik, Louise Silverstein and Wizdom Hammond for their careful and sympathetic considerations of our offering.In looking across the different commentaries, it seems to us that there is a fairly clear and obvious pattern. All three reviewers begin by aligning themselves with the broader aims of our approach to the study of men and masculinities, before going on to suggest that the main rhetorical target of our critique (the Gender Role Strain Paradigm -henceforth GRSP) is not inconsistent with those aims. That is, all three commentators seek to soften or defuse our critique by challenging key aspects of what we would hold to be crucial differences between GRSP and DP. In this short rejoinder we would to like to revisit these issues. More specifically, in highlighting the links between theory and method, we want to spell out, hopefully more clearly than before, how DP offers a radical alternative to work that is situated within the confines of the GRSP.The best place to start, perhaps, is with the piece by Silverstein. It was interesting to hear her claim that Pleck's original formulation of the

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A balance between putting on the researcher’s hat and being a fellow human being: a researcher perspective on informal carer involvement in health and social care research

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