Confessions of a Reformed Positivist: Feminist Participatory Research as Good Social Science

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I remember well my undergraduate and graduate courses in research methods. My teachers repeatedly impressed on me the importance of objectivity in social science research. I learned how to draw a random sample, how to write “unbiased” survey questions, and how to analyze data using a wide variety of statistical techniques. My education in qualitative methods occurred primarily “on the job,” when, in my first and second years in graduate school, I was employed as a research assistant on two nationally funded [Page 132] studies. Before going out into the field to conduct interviews, I was instructed in how to avoid biasing my ...

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