6. Social Criticism
• The term social criticism often
refers to a mode of criticism that
locates the reasons for malicious
conditions in a society considered
to be in a flawed social structure.
7. • It may also refer to people adhering
to a social critic’s aim at practical
solutions by way of specific
measures either for consensual
reform or powerful revolution.
8. Social Practice
• Social practice is a theory within
psychology that seeks to determine
the link between practice and
context within social situations.
• Emphasized as a commitment to
change, social practice occurs in two
forms: activity and inquiry.
9. Social practice as activity
• Social practice involves engagement
with communities of interest by
creating a practitioner- community
relationship wherein there remains a
focus on the skills, knowledge, and
understanding of people in their
private, family, community, and
working lives.
10. Social practice as inquiry
• Within research, social practice aims to
integrate the individual with his or her
surrounding environment while assessing
how context and culture relate to common
actions and practices of the individual.
• Just as social practice is an activity itself,
inquiry focuses on how social activity
occurs and identifies its main causes and
outcomes.
11. Braveheart
• On May 24, 1995, five days after its official
premiere in Los Angeles.
• It was released to theaters nationwide in the
USA.
• The movie starred Mel Gibson as the 13th
century Scottish rebel leader William
Wallace.
• He also directed it.
12. Famous lines:
• “They may take our lives, but they’ll
never take our freedom!”
• “Aye, fight and you may die. Run and
you’ll live-at least a while. And, dying in
your beds many years from now, would
you be willing to trade all the days from
this day to that for one chance, just one
chance, to come back here and tell our
enemies that they may take our lives,
but they’ll never take our freedom!?!
Alba gu bra!”
Most often applied within the context of human development, social practice involves knowledge production and the theorization and analysis of both institutional and intervention practices.
In this approach to social practice, activity is used for social change without the agenda of research. Activity theory suggest the use of a system of participants that work to ward an object or goal that brings about some form of change or transformation in the community.
It has been argued that research be developed as a specific theory of social practice through which research purposes are defined not by philosophical paradigm but by researchers’ commitments to specific forms of social action.