Week 2 Flashcards
(21 cards)
What is true about theory and the west?
It is associated with the western scientific worldview
When did generating truths emerge?
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
How is knowledge generated?
by observation and experimentation and sense-experience
What is the scientific method known as?
empiricism
Institutions who generate knowledge are called what?
Research based and are schools, medicine, government, industry, corporations
Why are women excluded from knowledge producing institutions?
because they are delegitimized from being knowers
What is true about scientific thinking and public/private spheres?
“scientific thinking” has become the dominant authority on all matters public and private
What is positivism?
Positivism asserts that the only true knowledge is based on sensory experience of a posteriori facts derived by reason and logic
What is true about positivism?
is closely associated with masculine dominance of nature
What is true about science?
embedded with elitist ideologies of race, class, gender
What is the relation of science and religion in the west?
as developed and practiced by western patriarchal authorities also parallels religious beliefs demanding heterosexuality, traditional masculinity and femininity, and binary sex categories
Can knowledge be neutral?
Depends. It often lies more on no because people oftentimes have to conform to white heteronormative values
Who created taxonomy?
Carl Linnaeus that further divided organisms and later humans
What happened during the 10th century and Linnaeus?
The 10th edition of the Systema Naturae “found” differences between peoples of the world. Divided Asian, Black, and White people into different names. This contributed to scientific racism
What is epistemology?
the theory of knowledge and knowledge production
What is parsimony?
preferring the simplest explanation of observed data when there’s multiple explanations to be had
What is true about women and religious history(ancient world)?
Women have been omitted from scriptures
What does Kate Millet mean by politics?
Power structured relationships and arrangements whereby one group of persons is controlled by another
What is women referred to in the ancient and modern world?
women are nature
What is epistemological privilege?
Being able to see situations from another perspective is a form of power
What does Fetterley argue?
it is the girl and woman reader who is disempowered: her experience is erased yet she is told what’s being represented totalizes reality. It erodes female confidence, causes self hatred, and self doubt
