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Pructus Posted 11 years ago
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What "their" refers to
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What does the underlined "their" refer to?
Since the invention of sociology by August Comte it has been generally recognized that the function of the sociologist is ‘to know’, ‘to predict’ and eventually ‘to act’ on the basis of his predictions, and it has been constantly repeated that the sociologist should abstain from judging the human groups he studies in terms of his personal and cultural values. In spite of this commitment to objectivity, sociologists have been rather abundantly evaluating their‘human data’, passing judgments on their morality, efficiency, taste. Ethnocentrism - a tendency to judge other peoples in terms of one’s ethnic (or national) values - was identified as the source of dangerous biases in sociology. American sociologist Robert Bierstedt invented a supplementary term ‘temporocentrism’, meaning a tendency to judge other people in terms of ‘one’s own century, one’s own era or one’s own lifetime’. But even these two concepts are not sufficient to describe all types of biases resulting from investigators’ unconscious involvements.
What does the underlined "their" refer to?
Since the invention of sociology by August Comte it has been generally recognized that the function of the sociologist is ‘to know’, ‘to predict’ and eventually ‘to act’ on the basis of his predictions, and it has been constantly repeated that the sociologist should abstain from judging the human groups he studies in terms of his personal and cultural values. In spite of this commitment to objectivity, sociologists have been rather abundantly evaluating their‘human data’, passing judgments on their morality, efficiency, taste. Ethnocentrism - a tendency to judge other peoples in terms of one’s ethnic (or national) values - was identified as the source of dangerous biases in sociology. American sociologist Robert Bierstedt invented a supplementary term ‘temporocentrism’, meaning a tendency to judge other people in terms of ‘one’s own century, one’s own era or one’s own lifetime’. But even these two concepts are not sufficient to describe all types of biases resulting from investigators’ unconscious involvements.
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The first one refers to the sociologists. The second one refers to the people they study. All in all, a rather awkward way to write it, I'd say.
- The first one refers to the sociologists.
- The second one refers to the people they study.
- All in all, a rather awkward way to write it, I'd say.
- CJ
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The first one refers to the sociologists. The second one refers to the people they study.
All in all, a rather awkward way to write it, I'd say.
All in all, a rather awkward way to write it, I'd say.
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