SOCI 1F90 Study Guide - Final Guide: Antipositivism, Color Blindness, Masculinity
9 Apr 2016
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Chapter 11: karen potts and leslie brown: becoming an anti- oppressive researcher. Heavily reliant on the creation and analyses of hypotheses. However, it"s not possible to be fully objective (better to recognize and accept out biases) The researcher who knows all the info about the topic/subject being explored. Focusing on the meaning behind interactions between individuals (nothing is concrete) Trying to put yourself into someone"s shoes (empathy) This greatly contrasts positivists, who try to remove this empathy. Seeing things outside of yourself and perceiving it as entirely fixed. See reality as fixed and concrete, and yet still knowable. Two different people can perform a study about something in different ways, but will come to the same conclusion. People may come and go, but the reality stays the same e. g. this water bottle is made of this, and holds that, this is what it is. The point is not simply to study the social world, but to change it.
