SOCI 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Cyber-Ethnography, Foucauldian Discourse Analysis, Ethnography
10 Apr 2017
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Truth" exists out there waitting to be discovered. Social interactions and collective constructed social meaning trustworthiness. Inherent conflict of interests and power relations resulting in oppressing. Assumptions and bias interpretive and critical approaches problematize the argument that objectivity can be achieved interpretive we do not exist outside of human interactions critical we do not exist outside of power relations/conflictual social settings. More generally, we are all shaped by our social environment (e. g. , socialization into gender roles, privileges/lack of privileges, life events, etc. ) these experiences shape our worldviews and inevitably influence how we approach research. Trustworthiness and reflexivity however, while not claiming to be objective, qualitative researchers do want to produce trustworthy studies. We therefore aim to practice reflexivity at all stages of the research process. C. w. mills" sociological imagination general considerations: social investivation, private troubles immediately visible to you, public issues abstract things (economy).
