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

by Susan Krieger

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081351715X
• ISBN13: 9780813517155
• Release Date: August 1991
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 273 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.