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Kling and the “critical”: Social informatics and critical informatics

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2007
AbstractThe article discusses Rob Kling's notion of the critical and how this term is embodied in Kling's social informatics and in works of other authors, which we identify as belonging to critical informatics. Issues of method and the notion of the empirical are discussed.
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Critical Social Science and Critical Theory

2019
This chapter examines critical theory as a way of explaining, contesting and acting upon social injustice. Critical theories, of which there are many, have been a significant source of explanatory power and motivating action for social work. As will be shown, there are a number of different generations and formulations of critical theory.
Lynelle Watts, David Hodgson
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Critical appraisal of social indicators

Evaluation and Program Planning, 1979
Cochran’s (1979) beginning of a critical appraisal of social indicators deserves attention. Social processes and individual satisfaction are extremely difficult to conceptualize, let alone measure and summarize satisfactorily. Yet, Western societies are eager to obtain and use whatever data seem relevant to public policy and individual decision making.
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The Social Critic

1981
Most criticism of Hardy is philosophical or artistic: On his “philosophy” (Braybrooke), “psychology” (Thurley), “pessimism” (Barzin), “art and thought” (Webster, Pinion), “background” (Rutland), “vision of man” (Southerington), and “universe” (Brennecke); on the influences of Schopenhauer (Garwood), Comte (Hyman), Darwin (Peckham, Stevenson), Arnold ...
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Piketty, social criticism, and critical education

British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2016
Thomas Piketty’s volume Capital in the Twenty-first Century (Piketty 2014) is one of those rare academic books that become a public phenomenon.
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Critical theory and critical social work

2019
This chapter shows how critical theory is relevant for critical social work and for those working in, and studying, welfare organizations more widely. It introduces readers to critical theory as founded by the group of Marxist sociologists known as the Frankfurt School.
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Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure: Responding to Investors’ Criticism on Social Media

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021
Yuming Zhang, Fan Yang
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Social Criticism for ‘Critical Critics’?

History of the Human Sciences, 2003
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Social Theory and Social Criticism.

Contemporary Sociology, 1988
Irving M. Zeitlin, William Outhwaite, Michael Mulkay   +2 more
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RETROSPECTIVE ON A SOCIAL CRITIC

The Lancet, 1988
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