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Values and Ethics - Coggle Diagram
Values and Ethics
Value Committed
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Gouldner
Value freedom is a value-laden concept - a convenient ideology used by sociologists to save their career interests.
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Sociologists should show a clear value commitment with a public responsibility for improving the lives of the downtrodden in society.
Value Free
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Durkheim
Sociology = the science of society --> needs to follow scientific principles in order to gain credibility.
Believed his study of suicide was value free because he found trends with official statistics that were gathered in a scientific way (using a hypothetico-deductive method)
Value Laden
Definition: The belief that sociology cannot be value free and that it is a mistake to see it that way.
Interpretivists believe that Sociology can never be value-free and that trying to be value-free limits sociologists in forming opinions and creating interpretations
Goulder
Research is ‘historically bound’ and is often based on the personal agenda and interests/opinions of the researcher.
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