Sociology
Integrating feminist epistemologies in undergraduate research methods
Document Type
Article
Abstract
In the past two decades, feminists and other science critics have challenged the basic premises of positivist social science. These critiques and the alternative epistemologies they underwrite have not been fully addressed, no less integrated, into our undergraduate methodology curriculum. This article examines the peculiar challenges encountered by teachers of research methods in this time of epistemological transition, ambivalence, and skepticism. Relying on Harding's concept of strong objectivity, this article argues that feminist critiques can be fully reconciled with empirical social science and suggests how this might be achieved within the context of the undergraduate curriculum. © 1994, SAGE Periodicals Press. All rights reserved.
Publication Title
Gender & Society
Publication Date
1994
Volume
8
Issue
1
First Page
92
Last Page
108
ISSN
0891-2432
DOI
10.1177/089124394008001006
Keywords
feminism, research methods, strong objectivity, education
Repository Citation
Ewick, Patricia, "Integrating feminist epistemologies in undergraduate research methods" (1994). Sociology. 55.
https://commons.clarku.edu/faculty_sociology/55
