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Feminist Social Research: Epistemological and Methodological Implications
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Moloney, Molly
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1316199216
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Year and Degree
1996, BA, Oberlin College, Sociology.
Abstract
In this paper I examine some of the primary debates in feminist epistemology, with a particular emphasis on postmodern epistemological positions, asking what these mean for doing research. One central question I ask is 'what role should the concept of objectivity have in feminist sociological research?' I argue for a reformulation of the concept of objectivity that, sympathetic with feminist postmodernism, rejects the ideal of value-neutrality in research, but that also rejects relativism and subjectivism. Keeping these debates in mind, I will examine debates regarding feminist methodology and the question of whether or not there is a specific feminist method or methodology. I argue against the existence of a distinct 'feminist method' and reject the polarization between quantitative and qualitative research that dominates much of this debate.
Committee
Daphne John (Advisor)
Pages
87 p.
Subject Headings
Sociology
Keywords
feminism
;
postmodernism
;
subjectivism
;
social
;
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Moloney, M. (1996).
Feminist Social Research: Epistemological and Methodological Implications
[Undergraduate thesis, Oberlin College]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1316199216
APA Style (7th edition)
Moloney, Molly.
Feminist Social Research: Epistemological and Methodological Implications.
1996. Oberlin College, Undergraduate thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1316199216.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Moloney, Molly. "Feminist Social Research: Epistemological and Methodological Implications." Undergraduate thesis, Oberlin College, 1996. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1316199216
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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