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Critiques of the social sciences have emphasized the broad and categorical exclusions of certain groups from their discussions and both the political and epistemic ramifications of these exclusions. For example, feminists have pointed out how the exclusion of women’s voices have shaped sociological conceptions of labor and rape, psychological conceptions of hysteria, and legal definitions of harassment in ways that both misinterpreted social reality and defined it in ways that benefited men and disenfranchised women. Postcolonial theorists like Edward Said have charged anthropological interpretations of “primitive” peoples with both being complicit with imperialist and colonizing political programs and dividing explanations of non-Western groups into rationalizing denials of difference or interpretations that leave non-Western peoples as completely Other.
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Solomon, S. (2009). Stakeholders or Experts? On the Ambiguous Implications of Public Participation in Science. In: Van Bouwel, J. (eds) The Social Sciences and Democracy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230246867_3
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