Social Science Knowledge Production and Minority Experiences.

Gordon, Edmund W.

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ERIC Number: EJ316219

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1985

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Social Science Knowledge Production and Minority Experiences.

Gordon, Edmund W.

Journal of Negro Education, v54 n2 p117-33 Spr 1985

Examination of the social science knowledge base relative to Afro-Americans indicates that the social sciences traditionally have attempted to understand the life experiences of socially diverse groups through a narrow cultro/ethnocentric perspective and against an equally narrow standard. (Author/GC)

Descriptors: Blacks, Cultural Differences, Ethnocentrism, Minority Groups, Research Methodology, Social Sciences, Social Theories

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses; Speeches/Meeting Papers

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Language: English

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Note: Delivered as the fifth annual Charles H. Thompson Lecture-Colloquium (Howard University, November 13, 1984).