While the change in location of an individual automatically brings a different perspective, achievement of a standpoint is not automatic.
Understanding the achievement thesis requires distinguishing standpoint from perspective.
Thus, Solomon (2009) suggests that the achievement of a feminist standpoint involves characteristics that have been empirically associated with creative thinking; Ruetsche (2004) that it could involve Aristotelian second-nature capacities to recognize certain kinds of evidence for example, social interactions among primates relevant for understanding primate social organization.
From a sociological standpoint, Mr. Saint Laurent's achievement was in offering a certain kind of woman (the lavishly moneyed kind) a connection to social rearrangements that were happening farther down the middle.
The achievement of an epistemically privileged standpoint involves a political engagement that makes clear to the socially underprivileged the shared nature of their experiences of oppression and reveals the systematic structure of power relations.
ABC's coverage of the Olympic Games during the 1960s and '70s was an extraordinary achievement from a commercial and technical standpoint.
He did not bring up the killing of Osama bin Laden, but when someone in the audience did, he declared it "a very significant achievement, tremendously powerful from the symbolic standpoint".
From a technological standpoint it was a jaw-dropping achievement, accompanied by predictions of improved highway safety.
And all because of this Prius, which was a good technological achievement but above all a brilliant, brilliant move from a standpoint of changing your corporate image".
The political nature of early standpoint, with its roots in Marxist theory, captured this political feature of achievement, but later versions minimize it, moving away from the Marxist use of class struggle as a primary organizing principle of analysis.
