A Critical Psychology: Interpretation of the Personal World

Psychology and the status quo.

“…Bateson (J.9?2) has been influenÈial in furthering a conceptual integration between individual, social and ecological variabLes in understanding human behavior. He contended that when "you separate mind from the structure in which it is irnmanenÈ, such as hunan relationship, the hurnan society, or the ecosystem, you thereby embark...on fundamental error" (Bateson, 1972, p, 485 Sullivan (1984). He proposed to elucidate "the pecuJ.iar or typical character of a specific cuLture" (1984, p. 158) (Capra, 1982).…”

“…Taking inÈo account the popularity of psychoLogicat theories in the public forun, and the large number of children and adulÈs consuming Sampson and (19g3) Sullivan (1984) Cohen (1986), Nahem (I981) (ciddens, 1979;Silva, 1970r WiIson, ]-g]-7).…”

“…2I6-2L7 ALbee, 1986; Bi11ig, L9?9¡ Sampson, 1983r Sarason, 198Ia;and W. Ryan, 1971), its poputarity cannot be solely attributed bo sociopolitical. interest but also to the hegemony of the posibivistic-enpiricist scientific paradigm (Sampson, 1978;TouLmin & Leary, 1985 (Holland, I97ga;Sarason, 19gla;SulLivan, 1984 (Danziger, !979¡ Samelson, 1979 (Danziger, 1979, p. 35 (Sarason, 1996). The judicial systen, schools, industries and corporations, the military and many other agencies enploy psychologists as consultants.…”

A personal sojourn to spiritualize community psychology

“…Nothing less than a metanoia or conversion to a "new psychology" will do. Although the frameworks of Paul Dokecki (1992), J.R. Newbrough (1992Newbrough ( , 1995, Edward Sampson (1991), and Edmund Sullivan (1984) are reasonable predecessors, they must be balanced by a feminist consciousness that subverts despiritualized psychology and reconnects with the sacred (Brown, 1997).…”

Post-Positivistic Educational Thought: Implications for Naturalistic Research Methods in School Music

“…As pointed out by Berman (1984), the world was thus stripped of its enchantment and, as the centuries passed, factual happenings gained an ever-ascendent importance over the details of how people were affected and how they responded to these changes (also see, e.g., Culbertson, 1988;Maclntyre, 1984;and Sullivan, 1990 Having stated this challenge of credibility, I turn first to the conceptual framework and, then, to the methods that evolved during my own study. Unlike the reporting of many qualitative studies, I utilize to a great extent the vocabulary of experimental methods and thus attempt to lessen the linguistic gap between quantitative and qualitative approaches to empirically-based research.…”