TY - JOUR
T1 - Social Science Ideology and Confusing One's Beliefs with Facts
T2 - A Response to Huesmann
AU - Fowers, Blaine
AU - Richardson, Frank C.
PY - 1993
Y1 - 1993
N2 - Huesmann's assertion that his cognitive theory of aggression is a straightforward reflection of human reality is challenged as a confusion of objectivist and liberal individualist ideologies with facts. A hermeneutic alternative is suggestedwithin which human activity is understood in terms of intersubjective conventions and standards rather than being determined by natural laws. From this viewpoint Huesmann's distinction between facts and values is not possible because the human life world is constituted by embodied meanings and valuesthe clarification and negotiation of which is central to being human. This perspective reveals Huesmann's theory and response to be but one of many creative interpretations of human living rather than the unbiased reflection of reality he claims it to be.
AB - Huesmann's assertion that his cognitive theory of aggression is a straightforward reflection of human reality is challenged as a confusion of objectivist and liberal individualist ideologies with facts. A hermeneutic alternative is suggestedwithin which human activity is understood in terms of intersubjective conventions and standards rather than being determined by natural laws. From this viewpoint Huesmann's distinction between facts and values is not possible because the human life world is constituted by embodied meanings and valuesthe clarification and negotiation of which is central to being human. This perspective reveals Huesmann's theory and response to be but one of many creative interpretations of human living rather than the unbiased reflection of reality he claims it to be.
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U2 - 10.1177/0959354393033007
DO - 10.1177/0959354393033007
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84965575501
VL - 3
SP - 381
EP - 388
JO - Theory and Psychology
JF - Theory and Psychology
SN - 0959-3543
IS - 3
ER -