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How can one resolve the issue of reliability and validity in the context of sociological research on inequality?

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  • Research Methods and Analysis

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Pierre Bourdieu's call to turn sociology's own analytic instruments back on the researcher herself anchors this answer: studying inequality is never a neutral technical exercise, because the researcher's own location within a hierarchy of class, caste, and educational capital shapes what she notices, measures, and is even willing to call "inequality" in the first place.

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What the full answer covers

  • The Contested Operationalisation of "Inequality" Itself
  • Social-Desirability Bias and the Reliability of Self-Reported Data
  • Access Barriers and the Representativeness of the Sample
  • Measurement Invariance: Borrowed Instruments and Local Meaning
  • Resolution: Triangulation Across Data, Method, and Investigator
  • Reflexivity as a Corrective for the Objectifying Gaze
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