Objectivity & Values
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- Objectivity & Values
- Weber
- Can't derive judgement from facts vic verse.
- EXAMPLE: Divorcess more likely commit suicde doesn't mean should make divorce harder to obtain
- 4 Essential role for values in sociological research
- Guide Research
- Select studied facts in terms of what we regard as important based on our own values
- Data Collection & Hypo testing
- Objective + unbias when collecting data = keeps values out
- Interpretation of Data
- Values become important to understand signifgance of things + draw conclusions
- Sociologists as a citizen
- Take moral responsibility for harm caused by research
- Guide Research
- Can't derive judgement from facts vic verse.
- Early Positivists - Comte
- Creation of better society not about person opinion but discovering truth of how it works
- Scientific sociology reveal correct society
- Value freedom & commitment
- Modern Positivists
- Own values irrelevant
- 1. Science concerned with matters of facts = want to appear scientific
- 2. Socios had become 'spiritless technicians'. 50s - were 'problem takers' hired by organisations to take on and solve their problems - By leaving their own values behind, socios making 'gentlemen's promise' - would not criticise or question their paymasters
- Own values irrelevant
- Committed Sociology
- Openly take sides + values
- Value-free society impossible = own values reflect in work
- Becker - take side less powerful + study underdogs = balance
- Past: research took on values of powerful
- Diff. pressures from those who fund research affecting research
- A03: Take sides of those fighting back to end their oppression
- Past: research took on values of powerful
- Past: research took on values of powerful
- Diff. pressures from those who fund research affecting research
- Openly take sides + values
- Objectivity & Realism
- Relativism - no independent way to judge truth of POV e.g. differing truths
- PoMo belief truth relative = no absolute truth
- Modern Positivists
- Weber
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