CRCJ 3002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Knowledge Building, Sexual Assault, Intimate Partner Violence
30 Sep 2020
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Understand everyday lives and social settings of those they study. Freedom of info and access to info requests. Quan starts with rise of natural sciences 17th century. Questioning christian theological view of divine order, increase in secularization. Theories about why views seen as competitive not coexisting. Manufacture and mechanical based sources of qualification. Seems as unscientific due to small sample sizes, case studies, involvement of researcher, reliance on subjective account. Quantification -- tech of distance minimizes need for intimate personal knowledge. Qualitative -- rich description, examines constraints/ patterns of everyday life. Links to colonialism -- studying the other to produce knowledge -- implicated in racist projects. Qualitative research as gendered, raced, and classes processes. Origins in chicago school, no specific discipline. Qual rejects positivism and questions traditions, roles, norms, and values that have been. Concept of verstehen -- compassionate understanding / empathy. Presents alternatives to classical standardized scientific research. Tensions with qualitative research -- positivist and post positivist, poststructural differences.
