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The good, the bad and the ugly searching for critical research in psychology

The good, the bad and the ugly searching for critical research in psychology Purpose The purpose of this paper is to answer the question what is good research from the perspective of critical researchers working in the discipline of psychology.Designmethodologyapproach The authors first look at what it means to be good, then what it means to be critical and then interlink these two as a means of providing a context to understand why there appears to be so little critical research around. Findings The authors have put together a narrative that they hope is readable but that still pulls on the different ways each of them have approached the topic of defining good research and thinking about critical research.Originalityvalue The authors have personally witnessed the disappearanceing of critical activists, antipsychiatry activists, disability rights activists, trades unionists, critical scholars and put forward a reason among others as to why there is so little good critical research, which is that the status quo is implacably ferocious in its efforts to close it down wherever it occurs. Indeed, if the status quo is not doing its damnedest to close down the research you are doing, you can be reasonably sure it is not good critical research. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Qualitative Research Journal Emerald Publishing

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Publisher
Emerald Publishing
Copyright
Copyright © Emerald Group Publishing Limited
ISSN
1443-9883
DOI
10.1108/QRJ-02-2013-0013
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Abstract

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to answer the question what is good research from the perspective of critical researchers working in the discipline of psychology.Designmethodologyapproach The authors first look at what it means to be good, then what it means to be critical and then interlink these two as a means of providing a context to understand why there appears to be so little critical research around. Findings The authors have put together a narrative that they hope is readable but that still pulls on the different ways each of them have approached the topic of defining good research and thinking about critical research.Originalityvalue The authors have personally witnessed the disappearanceing of critical activists, antipsychiatry activists, disability rights activists, trades unionists, critical scholars and put forward a reason among others as to why there is so little good critical research, which is that the status quo is implacably ferocious in its efforts to close it down wherever it occurs. Indeed, if the status quo is not doing its damnedest to close down the research you are doing, you can be reasonably sure it is not good critical research.

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Qualitative Research JournalEmerald Publishing

Published: Jul 19, 2013

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