What examples can you think of that support or refute Smith’s position on relations of ruling.
What will be an ideal response?
Thus, Smith (1990b:6) describes relations of ruling as including not only forms such as “bureaucracy, administration, management, professional organization and media,” but also “the complex of discourses, scientific, technical, and cultural, that intersect, interpenetrate, and coordinate” them. Smith (1987:4) maintains that behind and within the “apparently neutral and impersonal rationality of the ruling apparatus” is concealed a “male subtext.” Women are “excluded from the practices of power within textually mediated relations of ruling” (ibid.).
Thus, for instance, official psychiatric evaluations replace the individual’s actual lived experience with a means for interpreting it; the individual becomes a case history, a type, a disease, a syndrome, and a treatment possibility (Seidman 1994:216). Smith goes on to suggest that because sociology too relies on these same kinds of texts, it too is part and parcel of the relations of ruling.
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What will be an ideal response?
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A) the relation between two variables. B) the reasoning behind experiments. C) specific hypotheses and test their validity. D) how the data they collect are distributed.
When a distribution is heavy-tailed it
A) has a flat appearance with many scores at the extremes (tails). B) is skewed to the right. C) is skewed to the left. D) has a pinched appearance with few scores at the extremes (tails).