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Value Freedom

Value freedom refers to the ability of researchers to keep their own personal biases and opinions out of the research which they are conducting. Positivists believe that all sociology should be value free, while postmodernists believe that value freedom is impossible and undesirable. Marxists and feminists also argue that apparent value freedom when confronted with injustice and inequality is actually itself full of values.

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