According to Chapter 2, what does R.W. Connell mean when he calls for sociological research to be "reconstituted as a democratic science"?
A) As we enter into an increasingly globalized world, with the United States as a dominant superpower, sociologists need to devote more time and theory to understanding democracy.
B) In the postmodern era, inequalities are gradually being protested, even decreased. As a discipline, sociology needs to support researchers who belong to previously marginalized groups.
C) Knowledge is power in a knowledge-based society. Sociology needs to form research partnerships in various spheres of society, and spread access to knowledge beyond the Western academic world.
D) Sociology ought to resist postmodern relativism. Positivist methods are the only universal, value neutral methods that will benefit societies.
E) None of the above
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