WGS202H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Feminist Epistemology, Content Analysis

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3 Jan 2017

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UTM

Department

Women and Gender Studies

Course

WGS202H5

Professor

Victoria Tahmasebi- Birgani

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Epistemology humans are knowledge producing animals, the key focus = knowledge. Every epistemology involves assumptions about three factors(three ways of saying it): the knower, the known, the process of knowing. __________________________: nature of the known, nature of the knower, the process of knowledge production. __________________________: the subject that is researcher, the object that is being researched, the manner in which the researcher produced his or her knowledge. Write three facts you know about facts about men and women: As an epistemologist what would you question: who was this knowledge produced it, who produced it, and what caused this production. Methodology how research is done qualitative vs quantitative: qualitative = face to face interview, data collection, quantitative = number crunching. Example: women facing domestic violence based on the people you are interviewing and what you are trying to achieve you would choose a methodology.

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Exercise for writers (F):

Address each of the four following critical thinking areas to the statements listed below (B-F)

(I have already completed (A) so you can use it as a reference)

1. Find the conclusion- try to summarize it short enough so a person driving 65mph could read it on a billboard.

2. Establish the premise-

3. Distinguish between fact, opinion, & reasoned (using both fact & opinion) arguments by evaluating its validity

Validity/Truth of a statement can be made by:

Personal experience, reference of an established authority on subject, internal consistency, plus consistence on facts we already know as true.

4. Distinguish faulty reasoning- which is in every one of the statements!

Please answer #1-4 (listed above) for the each of the following quotes:

F. âBut people talk about cap and tax and they arenât sure exactly what weâre talking about. Letâs get back to step one. What is the problem? Why do we have to have this tax in the first place? Itâs about carbon dioxide. Well, what is carbon dioxide? Letâs just go to a fundamental question. Carbon dioxide, Mister Speaker, is a natural byproduct of nature. Carbon dioxide is natural. It occurs in Earth. It is a part of the regular lifecycle of Earth. In fact, life on planet Earth canât even exist without carbon dioxide. So necessary is it to human life, to animal life, to plant life, to the oceans, to the vegetation thatâs on the Earth, to the, to the fowl that â that flies in the air, we need to have carbon dioxide as part of the fundamental lifecycle of Earth. As a matter of fact, carbon dioxide is portrayed as harmful! But there isnât even one study that can be produced that shows carbon dioxide is a harmful gas. There isnât one such study because carbon dioxide is not a harmful gas, it is a harmless gas. Carbon dioxide is natural. It is not harmful. It is part of Earthâs life cycle. And yet weâre being told that we have to reduce this natural substance and reduce the American standard of living to create an arbitrary reduction in something that is naturally occurring in the earth. Well weâre told the crux of this problem is human activity. Itâs humans that are creating more carbon dioxide! Is that true, or is that false? Well, carbon dioxide is a natural part of Earthâs atmosphere. The carbon dioxide is perhaps three percent of the total atmosphere thatâs in the Earth. So if you take a pie chart, and you have all of Earthâs atmosphere, carbon dioxide is perhaps three percent of that total. What part of human activity creates carbon dioxide? If carbon dioxide is a negligible gas and itâs only three percent of Earthâs atmosphere, what part is human activity? Human activity contributes perhaps three

percent of the three percent. In other words, human activity is maybe 3 percent

contributing to the 3 percent of carbon dioxide thatâs in Earthâs atmosphere. Itâs so

negligible â itâs a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent â that it can hardly

be â be quantified.â (Spoken on the House floor on Earth Day, April 22, 2009, by Rep. Michele Bachmann)

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