All of Chapter 1 (and particularly from p. 13's "Your Journey into Systematics Inquiry" to the chapter's end) made me think about the recent controversy involving the "MAGA teen" at the Lincoln Memorial. In particular I have been thinking about how hard it is to see things "as they are" as opposed to seeing them as they look when viewed from our particular point of view. I guess my question for this week is what do you think about the possibility for "systematic inquiry" (i.e., social science) to help us to overcome or at least mitigate this problem of perception.
There have been a number of good commentaries on the issue of perception, worldview, etc in relation to to this controversy. A reasonably brief and thoughtful version appeared in The Atlantic
(https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/01/julie-irwin-zimmerman-i-failed-covington-catholic-test/580897/).
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January 22...
Vick and Furlong's piece in the Chronicle takes up a number of topics that we discussed at varying levels of depth last semester in 702 (and that you have certainly bumped into throughout your doc work. Pick an issue or two that you would like to get into and share it with the group. Why is whatever you picked of interest? What do you think about and what questions do you have about it?
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