The Conceptual Practices of Power

Abstract

The profession of sociology has been predicated on a universe grounded in men’s experience and relationships and still largely appropriated by men as their “territory.” An important set of procedures that serve to separate the discipline’s body of knowledge from its practitioners is known as objectivity. The ethic of objectivity and the methods used in its practice are concerned primarily with the separation of knowers from what they know and in particular with the separation of what is known from knowers’ interests, “biases,” and so forth, that are not authorized by the discipline. Sociology’s conceptual procedures, methods, and relevances organize its subject matter from a determinate position in society. This critical disclosure is the basis of an alternative way of thinking sociology. Women’s situation in sociology discloses to us a typical bifurcate structure with the abstracted, conceptual practices on the one hand and the concrete realizations, the maintenance routines, and so forth, on the other.

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