TY - RPRT
T1 - Epistemological attitudes in research scale (EARS-6)
T2 - Zusammenstellung sozialwissenschaftlicher Items und Skalen (ZIS)
AU - Schubert, K.
AU - Fischer, M.
DO - https://zis.gesis.org/DoiId/zis336
UR - 10.6102/zis336
AB - 
Epistemological questions – about how to achieve objective knowledge through research – have recently become a matter of political contestation, both from within and outside academia. Proponents of positivist epistemologies hold that objective knowledge can be produced by abstracting from one’s social position and accuse critical theories, such as gender studies, for moralizing and politicizing academia. Proponents of critical epistemologies hold that it is necessary to include socially situated knowledge into research. Therefore, they argue that a merely positivist epistemology stabilizes discrimination within academia and hinders broad knowledge by excluding minority standpoints. EARS-6 translates the epistemological and political debates to general attitudes towards research and the scale works independent of participants’ actual knowledge of epistemological theories.
PY - 2023
PB - ZIS - GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
LA - en
SN - http://zis.gesis.org/