SOCY 273 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Exact Sequence, Blue-Collar Worker, Mae

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 273
• Professor: Robyn Sattlink

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Sense of who we are is impacted by other discourses. Discourse: language, interactions, and practices that form the object which they speak. Modes by which human beings are made subjects . Sense of self is made possible through discourses and actions. Power is everywhere and power is in everyone. Power is not oppressive, rather power can make things possible. Power becomes a way we can see ourselves and the world make opportunities possible. Disability wasn"t always a category to assign individuals. It only became possible to medical studies, researchers, and statistics. Butler said that discourse constrains the self but also provides opportunities for us. Pomertantz et al. (2004); romangnoli and wall (2012) They argue that girls are not taken seriously by boys in skateboarding. Examining talk in sequence to determine what it accomplishes or does. It might tell us something about the identity of the person.