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Paperback Social Science and the Self: Personal Essays on an Art Form Book

ISBN: 081351715X

ISBN13: 9780813517155

Social Science and the Self: Personal Essays on an Art Form

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The social science disciplines tend to view the self as a contaminant. The unique, inner life of the observer, the researcher, is to be separated, neutralized, standardized, and controlled. At the same time, the observer is expected to use the self in understanding the world. Susan Krieger, a sociologist trained in traditional social science, argues in this controversial book that this view of the self needs to be altered. Social scientists should...

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