T&M VALUES

Question 1

What are values?

Answer 1

Things that are important to us that guide our actions.

Question 2

Who says we should be Value-free?

Answer 2

Modernists; Comte, Marxism and Durkheim

Question 3

Why should it be Value free?

Answer 3

Enlightenment period; science was praised for being progressive. Comte wanted sociology to mimic science to have the same respect.

Question 4

Enlightenment

Answer 4

Trying to improve human life

Question 5

Value laden

Answer 5

Weber

Question 6

When should values be present?

Answer 6

1. When choosing a topic
2. Interpreting the data found
3. Being morally accountable

Question 7

When should values not be present?

Answer 7

1. Data collection and testing hypothesis as it decreases validity.

Question 8

Who says values should be present?

Answer 8

Committed Sociologists

Question 9

Gouldner

Answer 9

Impossible and Undesirable to be value-free. Undesirable as it becomes a money-making scheme which is not was sociology should be.

Question 10

Myrdal

Answer 10

Sociologists should take sides to uncover problems. In the 1950s values drove the research.

Question 11

Becker

Answer 11

Should take the side of the underdog

Question 12

Goffman

Answer 12

Should use qualitative to seek Verstehan.