* Critical race theory, a school of social thought that applies critical theory to issues of race, law, and power

Critical theory – examination and critique of society and culture, drawing from knowledge across the social sciences and humanities.

Critical theory is a school of thought that stresses the examination and the critique of society and culture, by applying knowledge from the social sciences and the humanities.

Critical theory in literature and the humanities in general does not necessarily involve a normative dimension, whereas critical social theory does, either through criticizing society from some general theory of values, norms, or " oughts ," or through criticizing it in terms of its own espoused values.

Critical theory was first defined by Max Horkheimer of the Frankfurt School of sociology in his 1937 essay Traditional and Critical Theory: Critical theory is a social theory oriented toward critiquing and changing society as a whole, in contrast to traditional theory oriented only to understanding or explaining it.

* A survey of and introduction to the current state of critical social theory is Craig Calhoun's Critical Social Theory: Culture, History, and the Challenge of Difference ( Blackwell, 1995 ) ISBN 1-55786-288-5

Critical psychology challenges mainstream psychology and attempts to apply psychological understandings in more progressive ways, often looking towards social change as a means of preventing and treating psychopathology.

Critical psychology is currently the preferred term for the discipline of psychology keen to find alternatives to the way the discipline of psychology reduces human experience to the level of the individual and thereby strips away possibilities for radical social change.

" Hayek and social justice: a critique ", Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 12 ( 4 ): 581 – 604.

* Critical legal studies is a younger theory of jurisprudence that has developed since the 1970s which is primarily a negative thesis that the law is largely contradictory and can be best analyzed as an expression of the policy goals of the dominant social group.

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Critical media theory looks at how the corporate ownership of media production and distribution affects society, and provides a common ground to social conservatives ( concerned by the effects of media on the traditional family ) and liberals and socialists ( concerned by the corporatization of social discourse ).

In the social sciences theoretical frameworks such as Racial formation theory and Critical race theory investigate implications of race as social construction by exploring how the images, ideas and assumptions of race are expressed in everyday life.

During the era of the Weimar Republic, Germany became a center of intellectual thought at its universities, and most notably social and political theory ( especially Marxism ) was combined with Freudian psychoanalysis to form the highly influential discipline of Critical Theory — with its development at the Institute for Social Research ( also known as the Frankfurt School ) founded at the University of Frankfurt am Main.

While some critics or schools of criticism emphasize one movement over the other, for Frye, both movements are essential: " criticism will always have two aspects, one turned toward the structure of literature and one turned toward the other cultural phenomena that form the social environment of literature " ( Critical Path 25 ).

For convenient access to many of Ritzer ’ s substantive contributions to modern and postmodern social theorizing, see Explorations in Social Theory: From Metatheorizing to Rationalization ( 2001 ) as well as more recent work often co-authored with his many students, such as ( with J. Michael Ryan ) “ Postmodern Social Theory and Sociology: On Symbolic Exchange with a ‘ Dead ’ Theory ,” in Reconstructing Postmodernism: Critical Debates ( 2007 ).

Critical of both capitalism and Soviet socialism, their writings pointed to the possibility of an alternative path to social development.

Initially outlined by Max Horkheimer in his Traditional and Critical Theory ( 1937 ), critical theory may be defined as a self-conscious social critique that is aimed at change and emancipation through enlightenment, and does not cling dogmatically to its own doctrinal assumptions.

Critical theory must therefore combine practical and normative thinking in order to " explain what is wrong with current social reality, identify actors to change it, and provide clear norms for criticism and practical goals for the future.

A 2006 New Yorker magazine article described Critical Mass ' activity in New York City as " monthly political-protest rides ", and characterized Critical Mass as a part of a social movement ; and the UK e-zine Urban75, which advertises as well as publishes photographs of the Critical Mass event in London, describes this as " the monthly protest by cyclists reclaiming the streets of London.

Theoretical models have also been developed to study the physics of phase transitions, such as the Landau-Ginzburg theory, Critical exponents and the use of mathematical techniques of quantum field theory and the renormalization group.

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Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal of critical and democratic theory and successor of Praxis International.

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* Critical Legal Thinking A Critical Legal Studies website which uses critical theory in an analysis of law and politics.

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Critical theory was established as a school of thought by five Frankfurt School theoreticians: Herbert Marcuse, Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Walter Benjamin, and Jürgen Habermas.

Critical evaluation of all data compiled is not a primary aim of this project.

" Critical philosophy " is also used as another name for Kant's philosophy itself.

Critical Mass is an event typically held on the last Friday of every month in cities around the world where bicyclists take to the streets en masse.

In fact, the purpose of Critical Mass is not formalized beyond the direct action of meeting at a set location and time and traveling as a group through city streets.

Critical psychology is a perspective on psychology that draws extensively on critical theory.

The German Critical Psychology movement is rooted in the post-war babyboomers ' student revolt of the late ' 60s ; see German student movement.

He adumbrated a school of thought that is known as Critical Rationalism with a central tenet being the rejection of the idea that knowledge can ever be justified in the strong form that is sought by most schools of thought.

A major source of on-line material is the Critical Rationalist website and also the Rathouse of Rafe Champion.

Critical state soil mechanics is the basis for many contemporary advanced constitutive models describing the behavior of soil.

The Wilhelm Busch Museum is the German Museum of Caricature and Critical Graphic Arts.

One well-known qualitative technique employed in I – O psychology is John Flanagan's Critical Incident Technique, which requires " qualified observers " ( e. g., pilots in studies of aviation, construction workers in studies of construction projects ) to describe a work situation that resulted in a good or bad outcome.

The Disney Corporation is notorious among cultural study scholars for “ reinventing ” traditional childhood myths ( Koven, “ Folklore Studies and Popular Film and Television: A Necessary Critical Survey ”, 176-195 ).

Critical chain project management ( CCPM ) is a method of planning and managing project execution designed to deal with uncertainties inherent in managing projects, while taking into consideration limited availability of resources ( physical, human skills, as well as management & support capacity ) needed to execute projects.