CHYS 3P30 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Vibraphone, Erving Goffman
13 Nov 2017
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Status of book review what remains confusing or unclear/ Children discover that adults lie to them (being lied to) Children discover that adults assume that children are lying even when they are not (being taken to lie); discussing being taken to lie", waksler also discusses the social rules for determining knowledge. Children are denied information (based on adults" assumptions about what is good for them or what they have a need or a right to know) Relationships between knowledge and power, time and place (bergman and luckman: 99) what they mean for children"s knowledge. Two pleas about lying (p. 114-115) and the notion of retroactive consent (whether the deceived person is grateful about being lied to) Discuss a truth you would want to know and why and a truth you would rather be spared and why. Why this title? (especially since so much of the chapter material is about lying and deceit?)
