Science as the research model
David I agree that we tend to assume that science has a pure research process where the research agenda is set in advance and it all proceeds in a logical and coherent process as suggested by the way that it is written up. However many studies in social studies of scientific knowledge (SSK) have shown that this is not the way science proceeds and that the papers written are constructed afterwards and leave out much of the actual research process. However, I also think it is the case that most of the time as researchers we have hidden research agendas which we employ not only in designing our methods but also in framing the results. Therefore it is worth while to try to identify these research questions and make them (and our resulting biases) apparent.
posted by Ruth Rettie @ 11:46 am
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