ABSTRACT
Until recent decades, a typical ambition of most researchers was to discover the objective truth about event–truth unaffected by the investigator’s personal interest, beliefs and values. But today, most researchers would likely agree that subjectivity inevitably influences their work in several important ways, including
the choice of the questions they hope to answer,
the sources from which they gather their information,
the techniques they use to collect that information,
how data are classified and interpreted, and
researchers’ personal relationships with the people and events they investigate.
