Critical social science must build self-reflection into its data-collection methods.

Evidence

If the basing of knowledge in the social sciences on an emancipatory interest in acquiring understanding was to provide the form of objectivity specific to this type of science, then the methods of data collection must, so far as possible, aim to set in motion processes of self-reflectionas Horkheimer and Adorno had thought at the beginning of the anti-Semitism project, although they did not raise the idea to the level of a methodological principle or maintain it consistently. … During the later phase of a research project at least, the critical social scientist would have to face his `experimental subjects’at least if they were among those who by his own standards were suffering from naturally occurring social constraintsas what they themselves might possibly be, as what he had anticipated them as. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 608

Categorization

• DEFINE: Pins down the methodological import of ‘emancipatory interest’ in Critical Theory: it obliges researchers to treat subjects as self-reflective agents, not data sources.
• XREF: Connects to Habermas’s Knowledge and Human Interests, where the emancipatory interest is formally systematized into three knowledge-constitutive interests. — connects to: Empirical social research must apply its own methods to cure its inadequacies. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 498; Emancipatory social science requires methods that trigger self-reflection in subjects — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2448; Personal reflection is reframed as data withholding once social-knowledge norms take hold — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 502 (+6 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Empirical social research must apply its own methods to cure its inadequacies. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 498; Emancipatory social science requires methods that trigger self-reflection in subjects — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2448; Personal reflection is reframed as data withholding once social-knowledge norms take hold — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 502 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Emancipatory social science requires methods that trigger self-reflection in subjects #expands (0.92) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2448
• Data collection itself, not just its uses, harms the self’s integrity #complicates (0.75) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 473
• Personal reflection is reframed as data withholding once social-knowledge norms take hold #complicates (0.74) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 502