Chapter 2 Flashcards

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What are interpretive approaches?

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Focuses on subjects e experience, small-scale interactions, and understanding (seeking meaning)

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What are some examples of interpretive approaches?

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Symbolic interactionism, the Chicago school, dramaturgy, phenomenology, ethnomethodology

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What are critical approaches?

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Look at how power and hegemonic discourses shape experience and understanding.Values experience, understanding, and subjectivity but also critiques these categories.

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What are some examples of critical approaches?

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Postmodernism, post-structuralism, feminism, Critical race theory, queer theory.

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The development of positivism comes from which discipline?

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Natural sciences

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The development of interpretive strands of research comes from which disciplinary context?

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Each comes form a specific discipline

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The development of critical strands of research comes from which disciplinary context?

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interdisciplinary contexts

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Which is the objective of critical theories?

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Social justice

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How do positivists frame their research questions?

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as hypotheses that set up causal relationships between numerical variables (the higher X… the lower/higher Y)

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Is subjectivity valued or devalued in positivist research?

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devalued

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Critical realists are apart of which research tradition?

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positivism

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What is the hermeneutic tradition?

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seeking deep understanding by interpreting the meanings of interactions, actions, and objects

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Which philosopher posited that “understand is inseparable from the human condition?”

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Martin Heidegger

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Heidegger is associated with which research tradition?

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Interpretive strand

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Which sociologists pioneered symbolic interactionism?

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Charles Horton Cooley; George Herbert Mead

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How does symbolic interactionism build on the interpretive strand of research?

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Examines the interaction between individuals, small groups, or objects. Interaction is interpretive and that shared symbols communicate meaning- differently for each person or group. Social meanings are created and re-created

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Which thinker developed Dramaturgy in 1959?

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Erving Goffman

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The question: “how do people interpret facial expressions?” is associated with which school of the interpretive approach?

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symbolic interactionism

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What is dramaturgy?

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School that sees social reality as a process of performance. Often conceived in terms of front stage and back stage, while managing impressions seen by others.

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The question: “how do people act in embarrassing situations?” is associated with which strand of the interpretive approach?

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Dramaturgy

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Phenomenology is associated with which philosophy

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European philosophy of the early 1900s

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What were phenomenologists critical of?

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The natural sciences for assuming an objective reality independent of individual consciousness.

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What do phenomenologists focus on?

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Identifying how individuals experience events and situations.

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The question: How do individuals experience dying?” is associated with which strand of the interpretive approach?

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Phenomenology

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Ethnomethodology was popularized by who?
Harold Garfinkel
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What is ethnomethodology's focus?
On how people make sense of the world in which they live
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Ethnomethodology draws on which strand of interpretive research?
Phenomenology
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Dramaturgy might use which research techniques?
observational techniques
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Phenomenology might use which research techniques?
observations, in-depth interviews, or written accounts of experiences,
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The question: "How do people go about making sens of their everyday lives?" is associated with which interpretive strand?
Ethnomethodology
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What research techniques might ethnomethodologists use?
observation or interviews with people talking about their experiences
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What are the two strands within the critical umbrella?
Theory-oriented deconstruction and social activism
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What is an ethical epistemology
movements like feminism, CRT' queer theory that have a social justice or activist component
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What do critical theorists seek to do with binary categories?
Challenge them
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What do critical theorists believe is the consequence of the traditional scientific process?
they fortify a status-quo oppressive to those in the periphery of the dominant ideology
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Critical theorists believe dominant knowledge is...
socially constructed
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To what end do critical theorists seek to subvert dominant knowledge?
To create room for counter hegemonic knowledge
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Postmodernism focuses on what?
The prominence of dominant ideology and the discourses of power that normalize it.
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What do postmodernists focus on?
Creating "truths" embedded in the historical realities that produce them
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What is post-structuralism?
A subversive process of breaking down unities and decentering the locus of research that challenges the dominant ideology.
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Post-structuralism is is concerned with what?
Creating transformational tension within the system that will change it.
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What is critical deconstruction?
Countering visible textual interpretations by revealing a subjugated or unconscious meaning.
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How did feminist perspectives develop?
out of the second wave of the women's movement as a way to address the long-excluded experiences of women and girls
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In what way does feminist research differ fro positivists in the research process?
They place the researcher not "above," but within the group studied.
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What is feminist standpoint epistemology?
Derived from Hegel and Marx. People have different visions of the world depending on their place in a hierarchical structured society. Therefore primarily focuses on the experience of women within these structures
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What is afrocentric feminist epistemology?
Epistemology that focuses on the "matrix of domination" experienced by black women
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What is intersectionality theory?
examines the interlocking nature of class, gender, sexuality, and nationality
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Where did critical race theory come from?
Evolved out of a multidisciplinary context from the intersection feminist, post-structural, legals studies, and civil rights movement.
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What does CRT do?
Investigate and transforms the hierarchical racial structures of society- race being socially and historically constructed categories
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What is Queer theory?
An interdisciplinary social justice-oriented perspective that seeks equality for the sexually marginalized
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What does queer theory try to do?
Problematize traditional notions of sexual identity and rejection of essentialist practices that erase differences between people