Question

How does Feminism complement or challenge the traditional approaches in the social sciences?

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Answer 1

Answer:

Feminist sociology is a conflict theory and theoretical perspective which observes gender in its relation to power, both at the level of face-to-face interaction and reflexivity within a social structure at large. Focuses include sexual orientation, race, economic status, and nationality.

Answer 2

Feminist approaches to social science:

Feminist scholarship, like community psychology, is determined by its values and processes. Feminist scholars reinterpreted fundamental concepts in the philosophy of science to establish feminist epistemologies and techniques, influenced by the political ideologies of the 1970s women's movement (liberal, radical, and socialist feminism). Women's lived experiences are recognised as viable sources of knowledge in feminist epistemologies such as feminist empiricism, viewpoint theory, and postmodernism. Feminist techniques seek to eliminate sexist prejudice in research and discover strategies to capture women's perspectives in ways that are in line with feminist values. Feminist research has four main characteristics:

(1) Expanding approaches to include both mixed-method approaches.

(2) Trying to connect women for group-level data collection.

(3) Limiting the hierarchical relationship between investigators and their participants to facilitate trust and public reporting.

(4) Acknowledging and reflecting on the sentimentality of women's lives.