Du Bois's Humanistic Philosophy of Human Sciences

Dados Bibliográficos

ID9747778
AutoresLewis R Gordon (0000-0002-4124-1340, Brown University, autor correspondente)
Ano2000
Volume568
Fascículo1
Páginas265-280
Data de publicação2000-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/000271620056800119
OpenAlexW2138917237
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas22
Referências citadas13

One of the many challenges W.E.B. Du Bois faced in the study of African Americans was the pervasive racism that affected how social scientists acquired data on people of African descent. Moreover, the historical reality in which such data were gathered was one in which there were indications of genocidal aims on the part of the dominant population. Du Bois needed to show that African Americans should receive rigorous study and that rigorous study was a part of the struggle for African American upliftment. In his effort to address both challenges, Du Bois, in effect, developed several bases for rigorous human study that included the importance of recognizing the humanity of the subjects under study. He touched upon several central concerns in the philosophy of the human sciences including the viability of studying metastable subjects; the relationship between epistemological and ontological categories in the cultural sphere; and the lived reality of action in the face of behavioral imposition

Action (physics · African descent · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Face (sociological concept · Human science · Humanism · Humanity · Population · Racism · Social science · Sociology · Theology · African cultural and philosophical studies · Anthropology · Critical Realism in Sociology · Demography · Gender Studies · Philosophy · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education