ABSTRACT
Feminist sociologists have sought to integrate feminism into sociology in a variety of ways. In addition to studying feminism as a social movement, feminist sociologists have also attempted to transform the discipline and the way sociological research is done. The scientific method with its concepts of objectivity as an Archimedean vantage point of detachment and abstraction, particularly as it has been used in quantitative sociological methods, screens out women's knowledge and experience of the world. Feminist critique has included a search for something called a feminist methodology. Feminist sociologists have used some of the alternative approaches that already exist in sociology, such as symbolic interactionism and ethnomethodology. Since feminist sociologists have called into question the "male" model of research and the conclusions or the lack of conclusions about women's lives, they have embarked on new studies trying new methods of research or adapting old ones. Some adaptations have led to significant contributions in the sociological methods.
