Standpoint Theory of Sandra Harding & Julia Wood
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According to Standpoint Theory, what primarily shapes a person's 'social location'?
View answer and explanationWhat distinguishes a 'feminist standpoint' from a 'feminine social location' in the context of Standpoint Theory?
View answer and explanationWhich German philosopher's 1807 analysis of the master-slave relationship is cited as a foundational intellectual root for standpoint theory?
View answer and explanationWhat is meant by the term 'local knowledge' as used by standpoint theorists like Harding and Wood?
View answer and explanationWhy do standpoint theorists argue that the perspectives of subordinate groups are 'more complete' than those of privileged groups?
View answer and explanationWhat term does Sandra Harding use for the strategy of starting research from the lives of marginalized groups to achieve a less biased view of reality?
View answer and explanationAccording to Patricia Hill Collins' Black Feminist Thought, which of the following is NOT one of the four ways Black women collectively validate knowledge?
View answer and explanationIn the critique of standpoint theory, what does the concept of 'intersectionality' challenge?
View answer and explanationWhat does Julia Wood's research on caregiving illustrate about gendered communication from a standpoint perspective?
View answer and explanationWhat is the primary reason standpoint theorists like Harding and Wood are critical of postmodernism's tendency toward absolute relativism?
View answer and explanationIn what year did US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor give a lecture stating that a 'wise Latina woman' might reach a better conclusion than a white male, a remark that became central to her confirmation hearings?
View answer and explanationWhat term does feminist writer Donna Haraway use to criticize empiricism's claims of disembodied, authoritative truths, which Harding also critiques?
View answer and explanationAccording to Patricia Hill Collins, what social location does she describe as that of an 'outsider within'?
View answer and explanationWhat does Julia Wood argue is the primary cause of gender differences in communication, to the extent that they exist?
View answer and explanationWhat is the critique of standpoint theory concerning the concept of 'strong objectivity'?
View answer and explanationWhat is the central focus of feminist standpoint theorists regarding the social location of women?
View answer and explanationWhat reason does Julia Wood give for why people in power have less motivation to understand the perspective of marginalized groups?
View answer and explanationWho does the chapter identify as the philosopher who has most advanced the standpoint theory of knowledge among feminist scholars?
View answer and explanationWhat is Seyla Benhabib's concept of 'interactive universalism' designed to achieve?
View answer and explanationIn the novel and film 'The Help', used as an extended example, what phrase captures the essence of standpoint theory?
View answer and explanationWhat is the primary danger Julia Wood sees in 'championing any singular model of womanhood,' such as Carol Gilligan's voice of care?
View answer and explanationHow do Harding and Wood view the relationship between being a woman and achieving a feminist standpoint?
View answer and explanationWhich historical figure's concept of the 'proletarian standpoint' was adapted by early feminist standpoint theorists by substituting 'women' for 'proletariat'?
View answer and explanationWhat is the position of standpoint theorists on the possibility of a completely unbiased, value-free perspective?
View answer and explanationAccording to Patricia Hill Collins' criteria for Black feminist thought, what does emotion indicate in a speaker's argument?
View answer and explanationIn the critique section, what problem does feminist scholar Kathy Davis identify with feminist theories developed by white Western women?
View answer and explanationWhat does Julia Wood mean when she says gender is a 'cultural construction rather than a biological characteristic'?
View answer and explanationHow do Harding and Wood feel about the idea of an 'essence of women'?
View answer and explanationWhat does Patricia Hill Collins reject in her formulation of Black feminist thought?
View answer and explanationAccording to the chapter, why is it considered 'nonsensical' to speak of a 'male standpoint'?
View answer and explanationWhat statistic about violence against women in North America is used to illustrate a compelling research topic from a feminist standpoint?
View answer and explanationSeyla Benhabib's 'interactive universalism' insists that any panhuman ethic should be achieved through interaction with whom?
View answer and explanationWhat is the primary critique of Habermas' discourse ethics from a feminist perspective, according to Seyla Benhabib?
View answer and explanationWhat is the critique leveled by John McWhorter regarding the application of standpoint logic on college campuses?
View answer and explanationWhy do Harding and Wood believe that the knowledge of marginalized groups offers 'strong objectivity'?
View answer and explanationIn her work, Julia Wood draws on a key principle of George Herbert Mead's symbolic interactionism, which is that:
View answer and explanationAccording to the chapter's critique section, intersectionality thinks of all aspects of identity as being what?
View answer and explanationWhat does Patricia Hill Collins argue is the result when the same ideas are validated through Black feminist thought and from the standpoints of other oppressed groups?
View answer and explanationWhy did many white male senators vote against Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation to the US Supreme Court in 2009?
View answer and explanationWhat is the primary practical suggestion of standpoint theory for communication researchers?
View answer and explanationWhat is a major difference between the intellectual traditions of Karl Marx and George Herbert Mead as they relate to standpoint theory?
View answer and explanationIn Patricia Hill Collins's epistemology, refusing to join in a dialogue, especially if one disagrees, is seen as what?
View answer and explanationAccording to Julia Wood's study of caregiving, what societal norm is revealed by a male colleague reassuring another man for placing his mother in a nursing home?
View answer and explanationWhat is the primary way that intersectionality alters standpoint theory's understanding of identity?
View answer and explanationWhat does Patricia Hill Collins mean by the 'ethic of personal accountability' in her epistemology?
View answer and explanationWhich of these concepts is NOT listed as a major intellectual resource that standpoint theorists have drawn upon?
View answer and explanationWhat is the title of Julia Wood's book that details her in-depth study of caregiving in the United States?
View answer and explanationWhat does Seyla Benhabib's communitarian critique of Western rationality focus on?
View answer and explanationWhen Patricia Hill Collins says 'cheating' occurs in assessing knowledge claims, what specific action is she referring to?
View answer and explanationAccording to the chapter, standpoint theorists believe that knowledge starting from the social location of marginalized people can provide what?
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