Confounding Methodology and Methods

One of the big contributions that feminist researchers have made to the community is, in my view, a clarification of the differences between methodology and method. In conventional doctoral theses, the chapter labelled 'Methodology' has frequently consisted of a description of the methods used to pursue the research with no problematisation of the available choices and how these reflect the stance, methodologically, of the researcher. Equally, published articles have been happy to tell the reader what was done, while giving no attention to why or to the values, attitudes and beliefs of the researcher who has made the choices. This assumption that method is simply a technique uninfluenced by the researcher making the choice has been demolished, particularly by many feminists. As Patti Lather has pointed out

Epistemology · Research methodology · Social science · Sociology · Philosophy · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics

• Getting Smart

  P Lather•Getting Smart•1991

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• Feminism and Methodology

  Sandra G Harding, Sandra Harding•Feminism and methodology•1988

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