... objectivity, or the belief that we can achieve "pure" knowledge of the social world, have all contributed to the androcentric status of the social sciences. In this essay we will attempt to define what is meant by "conventional epistemologies" (focussing primarily upon Sociology), suggesting also that different feminist epistemologies offer different approaches regarding conventional epistemologies. ... needed social transformations; neither does it encourage a more just humane society. It is also relevant to mention here that the sociological subject in language has been male -"he" and ...

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... roughly half of the children in the world are female. However the consequences of such usages might go well beyond a simple inaccuracy of language. Graham (1973 in Thorne, Kramarae and Henley 1983, 9-10) conducted a computer analysis of one hundred thousand words from children's schoolbooks and ... and others who think as they do. Quite simply put they are ignoring the power relations implicit in the language use and their consequences. Earlier in the essay it was pointed out that the use of "he" as a neutral pronoun was problematic because of its inaccuracy ... There is clearly a link ...

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