SOCI 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Horticulture, Heteronormativity
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How do we know what we know, how does knowing happen, how is it organized. How do we go about choosing one account or explanation over another. Involved assumptions about the knower, the known, and the relationship between them (the process of knowing) (genova, 1983) how do we know an apple is an apple. Asking an authority, someone who already knows depending on how you approach it, you might come to know an object in a different way how can we know an apple. Depends on who the noter is gardener: nutritious compost chef: ingredient horse: treat farmer: seeds for next year horticulturalist: honey crisp variety pastor: lesson about temptation. How much pro t can it make ex: - geography: why is farmland to grow apples disappearing in certain ares four common epistemological orientations: positivist. The world is organized based on laws and we can observe these laws with scienti c method.
