Ronald Jeremiah Schindler
![Applied Social Sciences in the Plutocratic Era of the United States: Dialectics of the Concrete (Avebury Series in Philosophy) Ronald Jeremiah Schindler]( "Applied Social Sciences in the Plutocratic Era of the United States: Dialectics of the Concrete (Avebury Series in Philosophy) Ronald Jeremiah Schindler")
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Dr. Schindler has written a tour de force to define issues of social science and its contradictions for the next millennium. He ranks with Habermas in being on the cutting edge of demonstrating how special interest groups have subverted the production of knowledge because scholars are in the employment of corporate interest groups. They no longer objectify reality in authentic language. There has been a betrayal by the intellectuals who have sold out for power and the perquisites of the good life. They have become part of the problem, rather than the solvers of how to emancipate our reified lifeworld from domination by the forces of production in the thrall of the profit principle. Dr. Schindler offers a theory of praxis and praxis of theory to outline how specific problems can be attacked from supply side economics to the death penalty in a concrete manner that restores confidence in a collective democracy.
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Dr Schindler critiques the clinical/medical model of community psychology within its objectified client/patient. Conversely, the clinician operates with reified theories, delimiting himself to the role of master psychologist engaged in a disturbed mode of communication with the slave other. The clinician/master is the enforcer of capitalist society's code, which socialises people into a slave mentality. Unable to engage his client in an authentic dialogue, the psychologist is unable to let the historical story of his client unfold phenomenologically as would be the case with the appropriate and intential integration of theory and practice. This same master/clinical relationship to his client can be an analogue for the capitalist owner in his relationship to the worker/citizen. Dr Schindler then innovates practical techniques for therapeutic intervention into the concrete individual and institutional problems of American society.
