What is Criticism:
Criticism is a analysis or judgment about a situation, a person or a job.
The word criticism comes from Latin criticuswhich designated the judge of works of the spirit as well as critical philosophy.
In general, criticism refers to a judgment that can be objective or subjective.
The objective criticism or scientific is one that makes an evaluation with objective criteria on a certain report or task.
The subjective criticism It is one that expresses an opinion without hiding a particular point of view.
Criticism can also indicate a very serious moment. Generally, it is associated with the point of greatest vulnerability or most delicate in crisis situations.
See also Crisis.
Critical review
Criticism is also a review that usually mixes objective criteria and points of view about a film, a literary or artistic work. A critical review of a film, for example, will include a summary of the plot and the quality of the script, direction, photography, and actors.
See also Critical review.
Types of criticism
In general, criticism can be constructive or destructive. Constructive criticism is that which seeks to make known the weak points of the person or the job with the aim that they can improve and grow. Destructive criticism, on the other hand, has no other purpose than to diminish the other party.
Depending on the area in which it is generated, criticism can be professional or personal.
Professional criticism exercised in the field of journalism or literature, for example, can be made according to 4 types or styles:
Objective and scientific criticism: uses objective criteria for your analysis.
Subjective criticism: expresses a reasoned value judgment and is usually framed in the genre of opinion.
Impressionist criticism: evaluates aesthetics over content.
Compassionate criticism: examines rhythm and breakdowns methodically in a text.
On the other hand, personal criticism does not have the validity of formal knowledge, being a point of view or an opinion such as, for example, those that come from family or friends.
Another type of criticism is self-criticism that the person himself makes towards himself by being aware of his personality and real effort towards the criticized object.
Finally, we can identify the abusive criticism that generates social relations of abuse of power and verbal violence. These seriously damage the person’s self-esteem.
See also:
critical theory
In the social sciences, critical theory was born in 1930 with philosophers and thinkers from various disciplines enrolled in the Frankfurt School. Critical theory confronts the traditional theory that separates the subject from the observed truth. Its greatest exponents are Theodore W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Herbert Marcuse and Jürgen Habermas.
In this way, critical theory affirms that knowledge is not only a reproduction of the truth but is part of reality, in addition to having the function of educating individuals to distinguish said truth.
With the emergence of critical theory, the debate opens on whether science and knowledge should avoid value judgments and be analyzed objectively and in isolation, or if they should, instead, produce criticism and its practice deliberately.
See also Critical theory.
Critical route
The critical path method or CPM by its name in English Critical Path Method It is a project management tool. Created in the United States in 1957, it is a program whose algorithms calculate times and deadlines for project planning.
See also Critical path.