Hi Mike-
I do not discount the variety of many interesting approaches in AP. I'm
concern about their very-very peripheral position. I'd like to see these
approaches as mainstream as they are in anthropology.
What disturbs me that now US government interferes into social sciences,
especially in psychology and education. It reminds me a situation in USSR
during Stalinist government interfering into genetics and cybernetics.
Eugene
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Cole [mailto:mcole@weber.ucsd.edu]
> Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2003 1:44 PM
> To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
> Subject: RE: reading critically
>
> I think you discount the variety inside of American psychology, Eugene.
There
> is no question of where the dominant ideology resides, but along with
> reductionist and positivistic enthusiasms, there is also a growing
appreciation
> of the cultural constitution of human nature.
>
> What disturbs me more than the drift of psychology, per se, is the way
> in which ITS dominant methodological paradigm fits the command and control
> nature of the Government's approach to ALL research with human beings, the
> enthusiastic (and distorted) use of a medical model for behavioral
research
> (distorted because it only takes into account research that reaches the
> clinical trials phase).
>
> mike
>
> Ps- Did I get the translation of nachitannost right?
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