TY - JOUR
T1 - To criticise the critic
T2 - Songs of experience
AU - Bradley, Benjamin
AU - Selby, Jane
N1 - Imported on 12 Apr 2017 - DigiTool details were: Journal title (773t) = Australian Psychologist. ISSNs: 0005-0067;
PY - 2001
Y1 - 2001
N2 - We contrast two senses of 'critique' in psychology. In one, all empirical psychology is critical insofar as it opens the methodology of its findings up to public challenge. Today's 'critical psychology' can be seen as extending this methodological reflexiveness to include reflexiveness about the discipline's political and value commitments. In this sense, however, a critical psychology would set out from the diversity of individualised experience. It is by this step, we argue, that it would best fulfil the critical objectives of the discipline as first conceived: as the touchstone of science and the guarantor of social progress. Such a step would have productive consequences for pedagogy, research, theory, and political practice.
AB - We contrast two senses of 'critique' in psychology. In one, all empirical psychology is critical insofar as it opens the methodology of its findings up to public challenge. Today's 'critical psychology' can be seen as extending this methodological reflexiveness to include reflexiveness about the discipline's political and value commitments. In this sense, however, a critical psychology would set out from the diversity of individualised experience. It is by this step, we argue, that it would best fulfil the critical objectives of the discipline as first conceived: as the touchstone of science and the guarantor of social progress. Such a step would have productive consequences for pedagogy, research, theory, and political practice.
U2 - 10.1080/00050060108259636
DO - 10.1080/00050060108259636
M3 - Article
VL - 36
SP - 84
EP - 87
JO - Australian Psychologist
JF - Australian Psychologist
SN - 0005-0067
IS - 1
ER -