**Abstract**

Standpoint methodology and its strong objectivity standard emerged four decades ago in the context of social justice movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Movements for poor people, African Americans, women, LGBTQ, and the disabled differed in many ways. Yet, all were firmly anti-authoritarian, criticizing the top-down policies and practices of governments and international agencies, as well as the natural and social sciences that served the interests of such institutions. The social justice movements argued that dominated groups would continue to be oppressed by research methodology, epistemology, theory, and public policy that ignored how the conditions of their marginalized lives differed from the living conditions of elite white men. They all insisted that the questions arising from their daily lives provided more effective starting points for maximally objective research results and the democratic public policies that such research was supposed to direct. This essay will focus on how, several decades later, newer social justice movements are demanding additional attention to the research practices that have bad effects on the public policy that shapes the everyday lives of peoples in such groups and elites. How do standpoint research strategies and their strong objectivity standards fare in these new social justice movements?

**Keywords:** new social movements, social justice, oppressed groups, public polici, standpoint research strategies
