Feminist Research and the nature of Social Science

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Feminist Research and the nature of Social Science

This lecture is going to cover some of the ground that last week's lecture on feminist research would have covered. It is going to link that in with revisiting the topic of what research is about and how it should be gone about. It is a very broad topic not necessarily expected that you will become fully conversant with all the arguments in this area. However I hope this lecture helps refresh some of the material we covered earlier in the term and gives an overview of the arguments. A copy the notes will be placed in the SRC.

It is going to begin by outlining some of the roots for the feminist challenge to traditional social science. I am then going to take a step back and look at the what social research is and in particular what the traditional scientific method in social research is. I shall then return to the radical feminist critique of traditional ideas of social research as well as some of the broader arguments surrounding the topic today.

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