SSH 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Knowledge Representation And Reasoning, Male Privilege, Ethnography

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Social Sciences and Humanities
• Course: SSH 301
• Professor: Patrizia Albanese

Document Summary

Critique of positivism/empiricism: science isn"t always neutral and objective, emily martin. Feminist responses: gendered fields, gendered discourse. Being conscious of how people talk about gender. Don"t make assumptions about what people are talking about when talking about gender: gendered ethics. Male privilege exists in realm of knowledge representation. When women are seen to question this knowledge by doing their own research they are seen as bad. Feminist methods theory: institutional ethnography informed by womens standpoint, any method can be used by feminist researchers. The method chosen by the feminist must be relevant to their research (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Identify multiple research designs that use qualitative interviewing. Identify different types of interview questions: introducing, probing, follow-up, direct, indirect, silence, scenario, specifying, interpreting, structuring. Describe benefits and challenges with focus group interviewing: complementary, argumentative, 6-10 people in group. Describe oral history and life history research methods: helps us fill gaps of archival knowledge, oral.