1st Edition
Taking Sides in Social Research Essays on Partisanship and Bias
By Martyn Hammersley
Copyright 2000
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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In the past it was generally taken for granted that the goal of social research was the production of objective knowledge; and that this required a commitment to value neutrality. In more recent times, however, both these ideals have come to be challenged, and it is often argued that all research is inevitably political in its assumptions and effects. In this major contribution to the debate,... Read more
Introduction 1. Taking sides in social research: an assessment of the rationales for partisanship 2. Between Weber and Marx: C Wright Mills on the role of the sociologist 3. Whose side was Becker on? Questioning epistemological and political radicalism 4. Against Gouldner: the myth of a partisan sociology 5. Methodological purism: Anatomy of a critique 6. Bias in Social Research (with Roger Gomm)
Biography
Martin Hammersley is Professor in Educational and Social Research at the Open University
