subjectivity

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S0841800 (səb-jĕk′tĭv)adj.1. a. Dependent on or taking place in a person's mind rather than the external world: "The sensation of pain is a highly subjective experience that varies by culture as well as by individual temperament and situation" (John Hoberman).b. Based on a given person's experience, understanding, and feelings; personal or individual: admitted he was making a highly subjective judgment.2. Psychology Not caused by external stimuli.3. Medicine Of, relating to, or designating a symptom or complaint perceived by a patient.4. Expressing or bringing into prominence the individuality of the artist or author.5. Grammar Relating to or being the nominative case.6. Relating to the real nature of something; essential.

sub·jec′tive·ly adv.sub·jec′tive·ness, sub′jec·tiv′i·ty (sŭb′jĕk-tĭv′ĭ-tē) n.

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subjectivity - judgment based on individual personal impressions and feelings and opinions rather than external factssubjectivenesssound judgement, sound judgment, perspicacity, judgement, judgment - the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions

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subjectivity

the perspective of the person (subject); lack of objectivity. The range of attitudes towards this term indicates its essentially contentious nature. It is often used pejoratively within positivist sociology to derogate biased observation or methodology. At the other extreme it is celebrated by HERMENEUTICS as the only possible way to locate any attempts to theorize about the social. Any answer to the question as to whether subjectivity is inescapable or undesirable relies on ontological and epistemological assumptions about the nature of human beings’ relationship to the concrete world. In practice the two terms are used as if they occupied ends of a continuum, greater or lesser degrees of subjectivity being claimed by various authors. Various attempts have been made to illustrate the way that subjectivities are objectively constructed and vice versa (see PARSONS, ALTHUSSER, GIDDENS, for example), but the dichotomy stubbornly refuses to disappear.

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noun judgment based on individual personal impressions and feelings and opinions rather than external facts

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