SOSC 1185 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: John Stuart Mill, Canadian Labour Congress, Health Canada
10 Nov 2018
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Critical assessment of research; challenging objectivity: critical assessment of research, problematizing the science of differences" that argues that men & women are very different, & is used to support structural & ideological inequality. That the differences can like biological differences and to say that yes women are not intellectually capable than men. That"s why imp to critically assess the research or these differences . These differences may be socially constructed and something that has always existed (universal) John stewart mill until we treat men and women equally we will not be able to see their natural differences. Science in difference in past (e. g. men and women have different brain sizes, men have heavier brains which means they must be. Smarter and have more capacity for intelligence assumed that bigger is smarter) Objectivity: assumed to be truthful, based on fact" & empirical data, no personal bias or values involved, neutral, fair: problematizing idea of absolute objectivity or neutrality.
