@sillyolyou @ChaouiAl @litgenstein "Concept creep" is a very particular, a very recent, and a politically motivated term. There are many terms like that in research writing. In fact, there's now a whole loud group of folks--those who like to use the term "grievance studies"--who have as one of their main gripes...
@sillyolyou @ChaouiAl @litgenstein ...that there are politically motivated, morally positioned, and not objectively measurable concepts in many research fields.
Well, research terms with political positions built into them have been with us for very long and I don't see that they will nor why they should go away.
Well, research terms with political positions built into them have been with us for very long and I don't see that they will nor why they should go away.
@sillyolyou @ChaouiAl @litgenstein We do have to be able to talk about their politics and their morality, however. And we have a right to critique those; deflections of "well it's hardly revelatory that you say researchers have bias" are not good enough.
Here's where "concept creep" comes from.
Here's where "concept creep" comes from.
@sillyolyou @ChaouiAl @litgenstein Don't tell me that's not research from a particular political position.
@sillyolyou @ChaouiAl @litgenstein Don’t tell me you can take that foundational moment when “concept creep” was created as the concept that is being used in the article linked by Kaufmann and tell me it can easily be made into a neutral term by one sentence in a badly theorized paper.
