How Do Sociologists Handle Their Own Bias in Their Work

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Multiple Choice

How do sociologists handle their own bias in their work?

• A) Sociologists embrace their biases and prejudices in their work in order to offer their own unique wisdom and conventional thinking to the greater understanding of society.
• B) One can never be certain that they are being completely objective. Given these difficulties, the objective and unbiased sociological perspective is a goal to aspire to rather than an absolute technique or provable tactic.
• C) By virtue of the scientific method, sociologists are able to abandon all bias and prejudice in their studies of the social world.
• D) The discipline of sociology is equipped with a diverse set of world views and perspectives that is collectively responsible for reviewing all work and culling out any individual bias in any given study.

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