SOSC 4000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Central Park Jogger Case, Homicide, Intersectionality

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 4000
• Professor: Prof. Paul Baxter

Document Summary

Trump challenging our norms norms of civility. Ex: portraying a type of misogynistic behavior reserved for private situation. Ex: frat clubs, business sectors appeal to his supporters. Post truth emotions matter more than facts. Epistemological problem how do people in gen x come to understand that truth does not matter. Not shared by someone of a different gender, race, identity different perspective counts in how we receive our reality. Life experience what we understand about reality different than brute fact. Different that other brute facts that start from over social understanding. Subjective brute facts subjectivity frame understanding of power, safety, security, right/wrong. People (cid:449)ho do(cid:374)(cid:859)t get it lack of experience. Other type of knowledge we use to mediate between subjectivity. Cannot show a casual relationship relying an imprecise knowledge statistics. Human beings have the tendency to react emotionally to things. E(cid:454): (cid:858)(cid:272)e(cid:374)tral park 5(cid:859) (cid:272)ase (cid:272)o(cid:373)pared to the ka(cid:448)a(cid:374)agh (cid:272)ase. Systematic biases why the 5 men were ever suspected.