Standpoint Theory

Question 1

Standpoint Theory

Answer 1

traces how distinct social groups within a society shape members experiences, knowledge, and ways of interacting

Question 2

Speech communication Theory

Answer 2

more specific analysis of how interaction with a particular social groups shapes styles of communication
-ex: men, women

Question 3

organizational culture theory

Answer 3

the role of communication in creating and sustaining distinct cultures in organizational life

Question 4

locations in cultural life

Answer 4

because society has hierarchy then different members of society experience and view things differently

Question 5

standpoint

Answer 5

material, social, and symbolic conditions that shape a groups experiences
-to achieve stand point a person must become aware of and reflect on the conditions that define and shape a groups conditions

Question 6

critical race theory

Answer 6

examines how laws and legal institutions have constructed race
-at one point blackness was defined as the “one drop rule”

Question 7

situated knowledge

Answer 7

knowledge is situated in social circumstances

• knowledge is plural
• mothers have maternal instinct but maternal thinking can be learned by men

Question 8

the outsider within

Answer 8

being able to see the world through the eyes of the group as well as from an outside perspective
-duality

Question 9

critical assessment

Answer 9

• some standpoints must be better than others but it is unreasonable to call one superior to the other
• groups are not homogenous: men are not all the same and cannot have the same standpoint