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Mind Map by Emily Garvin-Howard, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Emily Garvin-Howard
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Value Freedom
Debate
- What Does It Mean?
- Free from criteria imposed
by subjective values.
- Free from criteria imposed
by subjective values.
- POSITIVISTS
- - believe that sociology SHOULD
BE value free, as long as the
methods used are similar to
those of the natural sciences; in
order to give impartial objective
value-free information.
- COMTE + DURKHEIM:
- * not only should sociology be value-free, it
could be could be value-free. This can be
achieved through the seperation from
subjective views and values of the researchers.
* sociology should be value free in order to give
the subject the status and authority that
would enable it to be regarded as a source of
impartial, objective information.
- * believe that sociological
research is worth doing
because it provides a means
for what they see as
improving society in some
way and resolving social
problems.
- * believe that sociological
research is worth doing
because it provides a means
for what they see as
improving society in some
way and resolving social
problems.
- * not only should sociology be value-free, it
could be could be value-free. This can be
achieved through the seperation from
subjective views and values of the researchers.
* sociology should be value free in order to give
the subject the status and authority that
would enable it to be regarded as a source of
impartial, objective information.
- WEBER:
- * a value can neither be proved not disproved
by the facts - they belong to different realms.
* Weber sees value as relevant to the
sociologist in choosing what to research,
interesting the data collected and in deciding
the use to which the findings should be put.
- * a value can neither be proved not disproved
by the facts - they belong to different realms.
* Weber sees value as relevant to the
sociologist in choosing what to research,
interesting the data collected and in deciding
the use to which the findings should be put.
- - believe that sociology SHOULD
BE value free, as long as the
methods used are similar to
those of the natural sciences; in
order to give impartial objective
value-free information.
- Is It Impossible?
- GOULDNER argues
that it is not possible
to be free from value
judgements in
sociology.
Value-freedom is
in-fact a value-laden
concept. Sociologists
should not try to be
value-free.
- BECKER argues no
knowledge is
value-free and
knowledge is
value-free, and all
knowledge must
favour somebody -
thus we have to
choose who to
favour.
- GOULDNER argues
that it is not possible
to be free from value
judgements in
sociology.
Value-freedom is
in-fact a value-laden
concept. Sociologists
should not try to be
value-free.
- INTERPRETIVITS
- * believe society is socially
constructed by the actions of
individuals, who act in the ways
they do because of the meanings
and interpretations they give to
their behaviour. The only way of
discovering these meanings and
producing valid data is to collect
qualitative and quantitative data
through close involvement with
those being researched, and by a
process of subjective
interpretation of what those
meanings and intereptations are.
- * believe society is socially
constructed by the actions of
individuals, who act in the ways
they do because of the meanings
and interpretations they give to
their behaviour. The only way of
discovering these meanings and
producing valid data is to collect
qualitative and quantitative data
through close involvement with
those being researched, and by a
process of subjective
interpretation of what those
meanings and intereptations are.
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