Accounting as a Critical Social Science
Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal
ISSN: 0951-3574
Article publication date: 1 March 1991
Abstract
Critical theory is concerned with enhancing individual wellbeing and autonomy through societal critique that has its origins in philosophy, sociology and political economics. Critical social science is the application of a critical theoretic within a social‐science domain. Accounting is a technology but it is not ideologically sterile. Critical social science applies critical‐theory methodology in order to make evident the ideological base of manifestations in social science as they lead to alienation, oppression and emancipation. This critical social science critique is applied in order to make evident the ideological base of such manifestations in, or related to, accounting.
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Citation
Dillard, J.F. (1991), "Accounting as a Critical Social Science", Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Vol. 4 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/09513579110143849
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
Copyright © 1991, MCB UP Limited