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Can Sociology Be Value Free - Coggle Diagram
Can Sociology
Be Value
Free
Value Freedom
=ability of the
researcher to keep
his or her own
values from
interfering with
research
uncover
principles of a good
ordered and integrated
society
objectivity
Positivist
Comte
social research should
be value free/scientific
government uses value
free research to improve
society
Gomm
and Gouldner
value free is
impossible
idea of it
is in sociological
social research
has a political
nature
sociologists
betray them
selves for
academic and social
respect
value
commitment
=improving
lives of the
oppressed
Becker
“who’s side
are we on”
all knowledge
is political
all sociology should
side with the
disadvantaged
Postmodernist
and Value
Freedom
relativist view
of knowledge
no superior account
of the social world
lyotard
=sociological
thinking based on
nature of society
perspectives
claiming
to be true is
just a
metanarrative
foucalt
=knowledge reflects
ability of more powerful
groups to impose their
ideas on the rest of
society
New Right
Value Freedom
left wing bias
teachers indoctrinate
students with marx
propaganda
Marsland
=sociology is
destructive force
in british society
sociology textbooks
only focus
on dissatisfaction
and alienation
Feminism
male stream
=sex blind
and sexist
oakley
=reduces women
to a side issue from
the start
liberal
=bias can be
corrected with more
studies on women
radical
=sociology
for women by women