“Committing Sociology” as a Value Commitment

Presentation: A Pragmatic Approach to Understanding Sociologists’ Differing Views on Value‐Neutrality

“…Hart () focuses not on ethico‐political values but on the impacts of vanity presses and invisible colleges in undermining the value of scholarship generally. Nonomura () sees reflexivity as necessary for sociology to make a practical difference in addressing social problems. Poirier () expresses concern that the idea of value‐neutrality functions to exclude socially marginalized groups from the mainstream of sociology.…”