CHYS 2P38 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Tomboy, Bisexuality, Cultural Capital
15 Jan 2016
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Restates wider distinction in social science theory between gender identity. Objective/representative, or empirical research in which knowledge is a mirror of nature scientific method (reality is real, it exists, can be studied) Marxist (means of production in a society), positivist approaches (there are real things out there that we can measure, how intelligence is shaped in schools iq, eqao) Interpretive paradigm holds that all phenomenon is subject to interpretation and re-description that mirror doesn"t really reflect reality, it"s our interpretation of reality. Richard rorty all truths must be stated in sentences, and all sentences are human constructions all knowledge presented is an interpretation. Research attends less to empirical realities than to how realities are meaningful, and subject to position and perception. Clifford geertz humans embedded in webs of meaning that they themselves have spun meanings inherited from cultural tradition, but someone created them in the first place and we exist in beds of meaning.
