L9 - The refied and consensual universe Flashcards
Why is SRT seen as a ‘grand theory’ as described in Billig’s (1991) ‘intellectual revolution’ in social psychology?
It involves the cultural, ideological, history and everyday social prices of ordinary people.
The reified knowledge of our society has been replaced with science when it used to be religion.
Why was SRT seen as an ‘intellectual revolution’?
Because it took science from ‘inside the lab’ to outside of the lab and in the context in the social world.
Looking more at practices instead of responses to experimental conditions
How does SRT explain science as it relates to ‘real world’ scenarios?
It looks at how ‘reified’ knowledge becomes ‘consensual’ knowledge.
What were some criticisms of the human genome project when it was discovered?
It could lead to racism (looking at different genes races)
Seemed quite colonialist as they wanted DNA from aboriginal/indigenous populations.
Was reductionist as everything boiled down to DNA
What was Craig Venter’s (author of the human genome) defence that the human genome project was not racist?
‘Race has no scientific basis’
‘Proof that discrete races don’t exist’
‘Race is a social construct, not scientific’
‘Demonstrates biological unity and genetic heterogeneity of different population groups’
Why was there resistance to the claim that there is no scientific basis for race?
It went against preconceived culturally accepted notions of race.
Went against ‘common sense’
How did Howard reframe climate scepticism to fit with common sense?
That climate action was ‘against the national interest’
Being for the national interest is common sense
What was the ‘prejudice problematic’ in social scientific research?
Social scientists and the everyday population had a different understanding of what ‘prejudice’ was.
- What does prejudice mean for everyday people?*
- There is no universal definition of prejudice*
“Policial correctness gone mad”
This is an example of:
The ‘prejudice problematic’
Different understanding of prejudice from experts to laymen.
What were the three ‘frames’ of racism that is within ‘common sense’ that was found from analysis of online comments regarding Goodes (the footballer) and the 13 year old girl who was kicked from the stadium for calling him an ape?
- Power
- The ‘real racism’ (reverse racism)
- Political correctness ‘gone mad’
What does power mean in for social scientists and ‘common sense’ in reference to the ‘prejudice problematic’
Social scientists see those who are part of groups that have less ‘power’ than those in ‘advantaged’ (majority) groups.
(i.e. whites prejudice against aboriginals because they are a minority group)
Common sense sees power as between individuals
(i.e. Goodes had power over the 13-year-old girl so she did not have the power there and she was not a victim)
What is the ‘prejudice problematic’ regarding the difference of experts and ‘common sense’ in regards to ‘the real racism’ (reverse racism)?
(In reference to the Goodes v 13-year-old)
Common sense - ‘the real racists bring race into the equation when race is irrelevant’ (Goodes brought race into it when it wasn’t necessary)
Experts - It was about race because the girl used a racial slur
What is the ‘prejudice problematic’ of political correctness ‘gone mad’ for what the ‘common sense’ is?
(In reference to Goodes being booed for the 13-year-old incident)
Common-sense - ‘racism is defined by the elites’ and they get to tell us what is and isn’t racist when we can see when it is (we are told that we’re racist even when we’re not)
- (elite figures were telling booer’s of Goodes that they were racist when they claimed they were not)*
- Rejection of the ‘elite’ idea of what racism is*
Due to Trump’s overwhelming support of anti-immigration and anti-elitist policy. Trumps election could be seen as an example of “the death of ______”
neoliberalism
Using SRT terminology, Trump’s approach rejected ____ knowledge and affirmed ________ knowledge
1) reified
2) consensual (common-sense)
* They were challenging the status-quo*
