PSY 535 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Judith Butler, Deindividuation, Gender Role
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Empirical research (can be qualitative or quantitative) is key to building accurate knowledge base about women and men and affecting social change. Critical examination of methodologies: methods are not neutral, shape/constrain findings. Experimental methodologies: artificial lab setting, decontextualizes experience, but also provides key insights about stereotypes, power, social/role perceptions, thus rely on triangulation (cross validation) and multi-method approaches. Need all of it to address questions we"re interested in o. Historical, social, political forces shape behaviour, cognitions and emotions. Psych not just intrapsychic and interpersonal. Research/science is never value-free: knowledge production occurs in social/historical context, doing psych is always political. Often implicit: values should be acknowledged, not avoided. Skeptical about discovery of universal laws of behaviour: diversity and multiplicity of experience. Doing and undoing gender similarities and differences: chapter 2, 4 (i) Rejects the view that language is just about reporting or describing what the world is like.
