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Social science needs values


Here’s a good example from 2019, showing why you can’t automatically derive policy ideas from what people think should be the case: Brits’ views on the British Empire. You need values – carefully articulated and debated to find the contradictions and other problems – to choose research questions and to interpret findings. There is no value-free social science!

 


Author AndiPosted on 7 September 20227 September 2022Tags methodology, social science

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