SOC100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 20, 23, 41, 43: Knowledge Mobilization, Equal Pay For Equal Work, Underemployment
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Rs 20 - working for care; caring for work. Sex concentration, i. e. conc of employed femails and sex-typing, i. e. Her other arguments: unpaid healthcare work is a gender issue since women are not getting paid to do care work. Rs 23 - inequality, demographics, and the new world order. Slogans, propaganda, and politics trump evidence, reason, and goodwill; illusions also prevail. Illusions and slogans similarities: they see what is wished but not what is there, they don"t acknowledge whether or not their wishes will make sense in reality, belief triumphs over evidence. Judgements are abstract with no test of whether or not it"s true. Simplistic and doesn"t really cover all of reality: bandwagon effect or consensual validation: everyone agrees, so all they believe all observations are real; social media makes escalates this even further. What happens when illusions are met with evidence against it? i. e. myth busting: 2 projects as examples:
