Teori gør forskellen: Analytiske strategier i kritisk psykologi

Abstract

Based on Critical Psychology from the Stand- point of the Subject the article describes ana- lytical concerns and strategies of critical psychology. In a first step, the development of

critical psychologies is located in current discussions on the production of knowledge, and three different typical approaches and major steps toward situated critique as a practice of mutual recognition are delineated. This shift, it is argued, has led to a historically new rel- evance of critique, and two basic analytical elements of critical research are introduced: Everyday conflictuality as the initiating mo- ment of critique as well as the importance of theory for critical inquiry. On this basis a variety of analytic strategies and concepts are presented which inform Critical Psychology from the Standpoint of the Subject and suggest a constituent move from partial perspectives toward situated generalization.