SOC 107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Symbolic Interactionism, Antipositivism
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Sometimes personal experience stories, or redrawn stories, but in certain contexts you must have statistical research and proof. In different contexts, different things count as knowledge. If you think of a (cid:271)ig trial that is sho(cid:449)(cid:374) throughout the (cid:373)edia a(cid:374)d people are sayi(cid:374)g they (cid:862)k(cid:374)o(cid:449)(cid:863) they did it, they (cid:373)ight think they know but that is not admissible in a court of law. We generally do not distinguish between what we know a(cid:374)d (cid:449)hat is our opi(cid:374)io(cid:374). There"s (cid:374)o su(cid:272)h thi(cid:374)g as too (cid:272)old as a k(cid:374)o(cid:449)ledge, (cid:271)ut o(cid:374)ly a(cid:374) opinion. The everyday way of knowing is very rich and drawn stories in different times, and we become informed of different things but that does not meet the criteria of social science. We must think of the difference of our own everyday knowledge and the social scientific ways of looking at it.
