Apr 102010
Standpoint theory was created by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel to explore the social institution of slavery in 1807. It purports that individuals, who belong to certain groups, are naturally affected during their daily occurrences due to these acquaintances. Since people engage with individuals who are, to use a colloquial expression ‘like-minded’, they associate themselves with different social groups based on similarities to discover the inter-individual. Therefore, standpoint theory is a postmodern method for analysing inter-subjective discourses which extends some of the early insights about consciousness that emerged from Marxian critiques and identity politics..
According to this analysis:
- A standpoint influences how the people adopting it socially construct the world,
- Social group membership affects people’s standpoints,
- The inequalities of different social groups create differences in their standpoints,
- All standpoints are partial.
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I’m pretty sure this more of a Patricia Hill Collins kind of thing. Specifically standpoint epistemology?
The aforementioned is derived from Hegel’s Phenomenology of spirit.