subjectivity objectivity
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- Created on: 29-05-15 11:20
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- subjectivity, objectivity and value free dom
- Functionalism
- Sociological research should avoid subjectivity, soc sciences do not aim to change society but to subscribe to objectivity via value freedom
- Critique of value freedom
- can't be avoided ie, funding, choice of research topic
- Gomm: when academic resources are low, soc research monopolised (controlled) by state/ big buisnesses
- focus on what important ie. corporate business USA improve worker productivity.
- Hawthrone experiement MAYO
- bias + inavlidity
- Hawthrone experiement MAYO
- focus on what important ie. corporate business USA improve worker productivity.
- Gouldner Value free soc is a myth impossible to separate from what they observe.
- Value freedom and Commitment
- Values irrelevant rsearch, science concerned with facts. Sociology's job is to find facts about behaviour
- Gouldner
- sociologists used to challenge authority now 'problem takers' - hired org solve prob for them
- Leave own values behind make a 'gentlemans promise' they won't question pay makers; their values irrelevant
- Commitment
- impossible to keep values out of research
- Taking Sides: Becker soc favoured view point of powerful ie police,
- soc should adopt compassionate stance; examine tperspectives of underdog ie. mental patient
- CRITIQUE GOULDNER- Becker takes romatic approach disad groups; only concerned with neg labelled
- soc should take side of those 'fighting back'
- CRITIQUE GOULDNER- Becker takes romatic approach disad groups; only concerned with neg labelled
- soc should adopt compassionate stance; examine tperspectives of underdog ie. mental patient
- Positivism
- Sociology can be objective by using quant research method + objective
- Validity + reliability checked by others
- Comte + Durkheim: scientific soc would reveal a correct society by discovering the trutha bout how society works + generating laws that govern its funct
- Marx: Soc reveals truyj of classed based society. Scientific approach would show how to reach communisim = science deliever good soc
- Weber: should be value relevant NOT value free
- Values in sociology divided 4 stages
- 1) values as a guide to research - researcher selects facts that base their own values
- ie. feminism study oppression
- 2) data collection + hyp testing must be objective/ unbiased collecting facts.
- once facts gathered test hyp
- 3) values in interpretation of data -facts set framework and draw conclusions- gramework infl by values
- $) Values and the soc as citizen - Soc should take moral/ political responsibility for harm of work
- 1) values as a guide to research - researcher selects facts that base their own values
- Values in sociology divided 4 stages
- Funding and careers
- source funding = gov, organisations. Can censor research
- Relativism
- Different groups cultures/ individuals diff views they say are true; they just have their own concepts no independent way of judging one truer
- BUT RELEATIVISM states we shouldn't believe in PM either'
- PM take reletavist idea ie. reject one account superior than other, no privileged that know truth. Any perspective that clain truth are meta narratives
- BUT RELEATIVISM states we shouldn't believe in PM either'
- PM take reletavist idea ie. reject one account superior than other, no privileged that know truth. Any perspective that clain truth are meta narratives
- Different groups cultures/ individuals diff views they say are true; they just have their own concepts no independent way of judging one truer
- Functionalism
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