CHYS 2P38 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Talcott Parsons, Richard Rorty, Social Construction Of Gender
11 Apr 2015
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Gender, race and class make up human societies. Socialization, reproduction and performativity approaches to gender identity. Reflections of boarder theories in social sciences. Restates wider distinction in social science theory between objective/representative , Shape how they see what they are researching. Objective/representative, or empirical research in which knowledge is a mirror of nature . Reality is real, it is empirical, it can be studied. Idea that things be studied, understood in social sciences. Interpretive paradigm holds that all phenomenon is subject to interpretation and re- description. All phenomenon is subject to our perception. Richard rorty all truths must be stated in sentences, and all sentences are human constructions. If you are using a language for science it is applied interpretation (our applied interpretation) Systems are always changing interpretation is always changing. Research attends less to empirical realities than to how realities are meaningful, and subject to position and perception.
