SOCC38H3 Lecture Notes - Erik Erikson, Sandra Harding, Black Feminist Thought
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the researcher tend to influence/bias their work. all of these works really have a light on productivity in an objective way. challenges the notion that it"s possible to have objective knowledge: the way these readings all pose a particular challenge. there"s a powered political element to these critiques to the construction of knowledge. people that had studied knowledge say that much of knowledge has been developed by following this logic of asking questions about social life, natural world/social world. the critiques of knowledge look at who is asking those questions, who wants those questions to be answered, who"s generating those answers. white men are formulating those questions generated by a certain segment of the population. there are puzzles depends on the person asking the question. I t misses much of the other realms of political struggle in housework and how housework is defined and who does housework.
