Differing to agree

A reply to Hammersley and Abraham

Dados Bibliográficos

ID11635407
AutoresSharon Gewirtz (0000-0002-5530-1121, King's College London, autor correspondente), Alan Cribb (0000-0002-7908-5195, King's College London)
Ano2008
Volume29
Fascículo5
Páginas559-562
Data de publicação2008-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoBritish Journal of Sociology of Education (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0142-5692 • E-ISSN: 1465-3346
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01425690802381577
OpenAlexW2076864868
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7
Referências citadas3

In this paper Gewirtz and Cribb offer a response to Hammersley and Abraham's criticisms of their arguments about the place of values in social research published in this issue of BJSE. In doing so, they make clear that most of the positions that Hammersley and Abraham attribute to them are ones that they do not identify with and that, like Hammersley and Abraham, they would reject. In order to further clarify and specify their own position, Gewirtz and Cribb argue that: their advocacy of ethical reflexivity rests on the assumption that there are many incompatible sets of values in play within even a single vantage point; researchers should sometimes take an interest in knowledge use although they should not always be required to do so; and, whilst at the level of propositions it is always possible to abstract out and distinguish between factual claims and value claims, at the level of practice there can be significant resonances and linkages between the two, so it is important to be ethically reflexive about these entanglements. Finally, the authors agree that values should not be seen purely as a source of contamination but that attention to values can help to underpin ‘objectivity’

Epistemology · Objectivity (philosophy · Order (exchange · Point (geometry · Reflexivity · Social science · Sociology · Statistics · Value (mathematics · Critical Realism in Sociology · Mathematics · Philosophy · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Social Science and Policy Research