The basis-problem dissolves when research is seen as socially institutionalized labour
Evidence
The so-called basis-problem simply does not appear if we regard the research process as part of a comprehensive process of socially institutionalized actions, through which social groups sustain their naturally precarious life. For the basic statement no longer draws empirical validity solely from the motives of an individual observation, but also from the previous integration of individual perceptions into the realm of convictions which are unproblematic, and have proved themselves on a broad basis. This occurs under experimental conditions which, as such, imitate the control of the results of action which is naturally built into systems of societal labour. If, however, the empirical validity of experimentally tested law-like hypotheses is derived in this manner from the context of the work process, then strictly empirical scientific knowledge must tolerate being interpreted through the same life-reference to labour as a type of action and as the concrete domination of nature. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2420
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Institutionalization enables collective work while codification imposes a false orthodoxy; Scientific projects are always part of larger social projects rather than separate from them — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1599; Interdisciplinarity’s subversive force becomes slack pluralism once institutionalized (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Scientific projects are always part of larger social projects rather than separate from them
#corroborates(0.82) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1599 - Institutionalization enables collective work while codification imposes a false orthodoxy
#expands(0.78) - Interdisciplinarity’s subversive force becomes slack pluralism once institutionalized
#qualifies(0.75)