WGS 480 Lecture 2: 2.4.19
5 Feb 2019
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Social science, medical research) - used to improve something in society. *feminist research is often applied with the goal to make social change. Mode of thinking, a way of seeing the world. You see the world differently than i see it. Work is contentious because everyone isn"t always on the same page. Grounded in critical approaches - challenging the status quo. Feminist principles inform all stages of research. Removing the power imbalance between the researcher and the focus of the research. Be aware of your own inherent biases. Quantitative uses a measure, qualitative you (the researcher) are the measure. Feminist research tries to get away from this. The systematic study of the theory of knowledge. What we know and how we know it. The study of existence, and how we describe what we have come to know. Methodologies: why you do what you do. Using it as a terms for an era. Maybe should be more post-second wave feminism.
