Troy Duster offers this description of epistemological crisis: "If what I am seeing is true, then other things that I thought were true are no longer...

Troy Duster offers this description of epistemological crisis: "If what I am seeing is true, then other things that I thought were true are no longer certain." Apply this description to an example of contemporary socio-cultural deviance (e.g., 9/11; the Newtown school children mass murder) to highlight the process by which meaning is socially constructed. Pay particular attention to mass media as well as other social groups and segments that contribute to the process.