SOCI 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Edward Said, Absolute Difference, Twain
13 Dec 2016
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Marx : capitalists use force / coercion to dominate working class (police, military) Gramsci : more often they (capitalists) manipulate ideas as a subtle form go control instead of immediately using force on the working class. Domination : physical force and coercion to enforce class hierarchy. Marx : power is a resource you do or don"t have; wielded to press; repressive: sociology lecture. Foucault : power is a network dispersed throughout society and is exercised in daily life by everyone; embodied. Edward said (1935 - 2003: postcolonial theory, orientalism (1978, european myth develops in 18th century, stereotypes that contrast the orient (the east) and the occident (the west, orient as negative inversion of europe. Orientalism as discourse: the myth (oritentalism) is a discourse, naturalises an inferior orient in need of improvement by european superiors e. g. - colonialism, a pattern of making certain generalizations about the middle east and south asia, sociology lecture.
