SOCI 2030 Lecture Notes - Dependent And Independent Variables, Control Variable
24 Apr 2013
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Settling debates is more difficult than starting them. Issues around crime are not simple to make conclusions. Crime statistics are highly unreliable (because a lot of crime go unreported & some crimes are more focused on) We use knowledge however knowledge is not always correct. Humans create it and it comes from the social world. Common knowledge/common sense what we accept as common knowledge does not prove to be the knowledge in the future. Some forms of knowledge are produced and reproduced sometimes through a system of authority. Knowledge is always imbedded within a system of politics. Studies of sex are one of the knowledge that government controls by cutting funds etc some knowledge they don"t want it to be out there. Look to authority, however relying on authority brings the question of selection. Two different types of authority: authority based on position 2) authority based because of knowledge.
