Feminist standpoint theory and critical realism both offer resources to sociologists interested in making arguments that account for causal complexity and epistemic distortion. However, the impasse between these paradigms limits their utility. In this article, I argue that critical realism has much to gain from a confrontation with feminist theory. Feminist theory’s emphasis on boundary-crossing epistemologies and gendered bodies can help critical realism complicate its notion of the bifurcation between epistemology and ontology. But taking feminist theory seriously also involves careful attention to the risks of epistemic violence, to questions about credible witnesses. I argue that both paradigms will be improved by better theorization of (1) ideology as part of social ontology and (2) interactions between the context of knowledge production and social ontology. Attending to what is missing, distorted, or occluded between the knower, knowledge, and object of knowledge can provide resources for theorizing social ontology.

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现实主义中的女性主义问题

女权主义的观点理论和批判的现实主义都为有兴趣提出因果复杂性和认识论扭曲的论点的社会学家提供了资源。但是，这些范式之间的僵局限制了它们的效用。在本文中，我认为批判现实主义可以从与女权主义理论的对抗中获得很多收益。女权主义理论强调跨界的认识论和性别主体可以使批判的现实主义使认识论和本体论之间分歧的概念变得复杂。但是，认真对待女权主义理论还涉及对认知暴力风险的认真关注，以及对可信证人的质疑。我认为，通过更好地理论化（1）作为社会本体论一部分的意识形态和（2）知识生产和社会本体论之间的相互作用，这两种范式将得到改善。参加知识者，知识和知识对象之间缺少，扭曲或封闭的事物可以为理论化社会本体提供资源。