CHYS 2P38 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Clifford Geertz, Richard Rorty, Talcott Parsons

• School: Brock University
• Department: Child and Youth Studies
• Course: CHYS 2P38
• Professor: Thomas O' Neill

Document Summary

Socialization, reproduction and performity approaches to gender identity. Restates a wider distinction in social science theory between. Objective/representative, or empirical research in which knowledge is a mirror of nature . Interpretive paradigm holds that all phenomenon" are subject to interpretation and re-description. Richard rorty- all truths must be stated in sentences, and all sentences are human constructions (according to theorists all sentences are interpretations because we are building our own perceptions of people from those sentences). Research attends less to empirical realities than to how realities are meaningful, and subject to position and perception (theorists would ask why gender is important to people and why do people need gender and culture needs gender). Power/knowledge paradigm understand all knowledge to be effect of truth to be defamilarized and challenged. Michael foucault- the order of things (1966) describes scientific knowledge as discourses that reflect dominant power. Social norms subdue innate sexual and aggressive drives.