A Response to Romm

Hammersley, Martyn; Gomm, Roger

doi:10.5153/sro.134

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“…Objectivity and bias 3.1 3.1 A further related matter that I had to deal with was that of 'objectivity', or to use a more pejorative term, 'bias' (Hammersley 2000, 1995, Hammersley and Gomm 1997. To accept the existence of standpoint on any level suggests that the ideal of 'objectivity' is flawed.…”

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Standpoint, Objectivity, and Social Construction: Reflections from the Study of Gay and Lesbian Communities

Homfray¹

2008

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This article considers a number of related concepts – standpoint, objectivity, emancipation – in the light of my own research which looked at gay and lesbian communities in the north-west of England. It advocates and promotes the use of gay and lesbian standpoint and defends research with emancipatory aims, notably in the light of academic and theoretical developments which eschew real-life experience and categories of identity rooted in lived actuality. Suggesting that queer theory is largely irrelevant to the lives of gay men and lesbians, it advocates a return to an engaged and practical sociology which acknowledges the benefit of research which has potential for application by the communities it observes.

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Section: Objectivity and Biasmentioning

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Standpoint, Objectivity, and Social Construction: Reflections from the Study of Gay and Lesbian Communities

Homfray¹

2008

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“…Thus, data from qualitative studies are archived (Corti and Thompson, 1998;Hammersley and Gomm, 1997;Corti et al, 1995). In addition, the collection of qualitative data is costly in many cases as well as time consuming.…”

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A Review of the Importance of Physical Fitness to Company Performance and Productivity

Etemadi¹,

Shameli²,

Hassan

et al. 2016

American Journal of Applied Sciences

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The purpose of this study is to illustrate and investigate the importance of physical fitness to company performance and productivity, by comparing previous researches on this area. This study focuses on the importance of physical fitness and its effect on employee health, performance and productivity in organizations. The number of health promotion programs in workplace settings has continued to grow. Although employers' rationales vary, health promotion programs may yield economic benefits such as reduced absenteeism, presentism, employee health care costs and employee turnover. The data for the study is collected from various sources namely articles from 1969 to 1999 and 2000 to 2015. The methodology adopted is qualitative and the findings are based on reliable data with respect to the economic impact of worksite physical fitness activity programs. Most, if not all, researches in this field have been performed in developed and highincome countries. This research recommends improvements and further studies on physical fitness on company performance and offers some suggestions for further research.

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“…Hammersley's critique of this position is well developed (for example see Hammersley, 1995: pp. 51 -5;Gomm 1997a and1997b;Hammersley, 1997) and we wish to add just three comments.…”

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More Varieties than Heinz: Social Categories and Sociality in Humphries, Hammersley and Beyond

Harrison¹,

Hood-Williams²

1998

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This paper is a contribution to a long standing debate over the nature of research and the relations between knowledge and power recently instantiated in exchanges over the criticisms of Hammersley (Hammersley, 1992, 1995, 1997; Gelsthorpe, 1992; Ramazanoglu, 1992; Williams, 1993; Hammersley & Gomm, 1997a and 1997b; Romm, 1997; Temple, 1997). It takes as its starting point Beth Humphries’ recent critical commentary on Hammersley and emancipatory research, and her attempt to ‘go beyond ourselves’ (Humphries, 1997). It argues that the logical endpoint of arguments that suggest the continuous salience of the social divisions commonly found in the current sociological lexicon is a bewildering impossibility and that they should not be taken as guidelines for research practice. It clarifies this critique in relation to ‘gender’. It further argues that Humphries's position, despite her apparent sympathy for post-structuralism, retains much from earlier structuralist positions, which undermines the basis of her attempt to develop a position beyond the constraints of current emancipatory research.

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A Response to Romm

Cited by 6 publications

References 4 publications

Standpoint, Objectivity, and Social Construction: Reflections from the Study of Gay and Lesbian Communities

Standpoint, Objectivity, and Social Construction: Reflections from the Study of Gay and Lesbian Communities

A Review of the Importance of Physical Fitness to Company Performance and Productivity

More Varieties than Heinz: Social Categories and Sociality in Humphries, Hammersley and Beyond

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