SOCI 4055 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Feminist Theory, Intersectionality, Postpositivism
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Conventional standards for good research discriminate against or empower specific social groups no less than do the policies of legal, economic, military, educational, welfare, and health-care institutions; in fact, these standards enable the practices of these institutions. Social research turns the chaotic and confusing experiences of everyday life into categories of. The social sciences then assign causal relations to people and social relations in these people in society, categories that reflect prevailing political arrangements. categories. The social sciences, while claiming to do impartial research, construct the conceptual. The social sciences are complicit in the exercise of power, including the power to control. Dominant groups are especially poorly equipped to identify oppressive features of their own. Their activities in daily life do not provide them with the intellectual and political resources necessary to detect such values and interests in their own work. Value-free research is an unachievable ideal. accountable for its social consequences can in many instances produce knowledge.
