Finally the ways in which social
cultural political biases impact professional and personal perspectives will be explored.
Not exact matches
While the soldiers of the radicals» class conflict changed from proletarians to people of color and victims of gender
bias, the structure of the radical paradigm was maintained: the division of society into the «people» and those identified as the «enemies of the people,» into «us» and «them» — the prescription for
cultural and
political war.
The petition copied to Mr Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Conference of States Parties to the UN Convention against Corruption reads in part: «SERAP considers these amendments to be in bad faith, patently an abuse of legislative powers, politically
biased, and demonstrably unjustified in a democratic and representative society governed by the rule of law, and incompatible with the country's international human rights obligations and commitments particularly the UN Convention against Corruption, the International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and
Cultural Rights, and the African Charter on Human and Peoples» Rights, which Nigeria has ratified.»
Andrew Marr, the former
political editor of the BBC, is on record arguing that the BBC has a liberal
bias, but this is more in terms of social and
cultural issues than
political ones.
On a related note, I wonder to what extent our
cultural biases and
political or interpersonal clashes might arise from misperceptions orchestrated (so to speak) by differing linguistic tones.
If an intelligent, analytical conservative is more likely to go with his or her crowd, then who is to say that (regardless of
political affiliation) scientists wouldn't be victims of their own
cultural biases?
How culturally
biased and accomodative to your peers and
political /
cultural cousins can you be?
Only particular scientific findings are in dispute and subject to
bias; each
political or other
cultural group is pro the science it likes (values alignment), but anti the science it doesn't like (value clash).
For example, if you agree that people of all ideological and
cultural and
political stripes are vulnerable to identity - oriented «motivated - reasoning,» then what do you think about articles that finger point about about the
biases among «liberal» scientists even as the
political orientation of the author is dismissed as a potentially relevant factor?
I tend towards an economics and technology
bias, I guess, while others lean towards the
political and
cultural side of things.
I don't dismiss
cultural or
political change, but I do recognize that my
bias makes me less likely to accept them.
The whole point of the scientific process is to move beyond, as much as is humanly possible, the
political and
cultural biases that every human being has, and to instead encourage rational, objective analysis of the evidence at hand.
As a true professional her support is not prejudiced towards or against any viewpoint, and is not limited by
political, religious,
cultural or any other form of
bias.