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From Critical Thought to Emancipatory Action: Contradictory Research Goals?

B. Humphries

Sociological Research Online, 1997, vol. 2, issue 1, 20-27

Abstract: This article results from reading Lather's Getting Smart (1991) and Hammersley's The Politics of Social Research (1995). The theme is the debates between ‘traditional’ research approaches and ‘emancipatory’ research approaches. It is argued that these debates are based on stereotypical views which obscure important characteristics held in common, and both require to be interrogated. The article examines two of these characteristics, appeals to a metanarrative of emancipation and the will to power, and considers the implications of the privileging of scientific knowledge over other forms of knowledge. It concludes by considering the possibilities for a praxis-oriented research which may lead to possibilities for emancipatory action.

Keywords: Emancipatory; Feminism; Knowledge; Power; Research (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.5153/sro.47

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