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100 1 _aMILLER, Hugh T.
_97239
245 1 0 _aMethod :
_bthe tail that wants to wag the dog
260 _aThousand Oaks :
_bSAGE,
_cSeptember 1998
520 3 _aKenneth Hansen’s methodological disciplining of Fox and Miller’s warrants for discourse is a worthy aspiration, but at what point do we hand over too much to method? This implicit and sometimes explicit expectation—that method will yield an objective perspective on any public policy discourse—will not be realized. The understandable desire to overcome observer bias will be forever unfulfilled in the social sciences. Biases, backgrounds, socialization processes, educational experiences, personal histories, and so forth can be acknowledged and dealt with but not transcended. To claim that one actually occupies a bias-free platform (by virtue of one’s methods) is an overbearing claim, indeed, and one that cannot be backed up
773 0 8 _tAdministration & Society
_g30, 4, p. 462-470
_dThousand Oaks : SAGE, September 1998
_xISSN 00953997
_w
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999 _aConvertido do Formato PHL
_bPHL2MARC21 1.1
_c19859
_d19859
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