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Keep the Tool‐Box Open for Social Justice: Comment on Kitzinger and Wilkinson
Author(s) -
Borshuk Catherine,
Cherry Frances
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
analyses of social issues and public policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.479
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1530-2415
pISSN - 1529-7489
DOI - 10.1111/j.1530-2415.2004.00041.x
Subject(s) - injustice , status quo , social injustice , social justice , economic justice , sociology , psychology , inequality , criminology , work (physics) , social psychology , law , political science , engineering , mechanical engineering , mathematical analysis , mathematics , politics
We argue that psychology is not ill‐suited to confronting problems of inequality and injustice, and that psychologists are, in fact, quite capable of activist science. The parameters of psychology need to be considered as being broader than mental health pronouncements regarding various targeted minority groups. At a time when empirical claims are being wielded as tools by both sides of the same‐sex marriage debate, activist psychologists should not relinquish their own various strategies for challenging the status quo. The authors provide examples of tactics and tools that have been used and continue to be used by feminist and other progressive psychologists both to transform psychology and to work toward equality and social justice.