SOC 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Pathology, Dick Hebdige, Metanarrative

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 104
• Professor: Stephen Muzzatti

Document Summary

Meta-narrative; macro-level approach, interested in big picture. Denying racial profiling, for example, is equivalent of denying the law of gravity. Early thinkers (hobbes, rousseau) drew from natural sciences for their philosophies. Applied those methodologies to the social world. Herbert spencer: pictured the social world as the human body saw a particular methodology (logic, systematic observation) used to learn about nature. Also meta-narrative, macro-level, also sees the social world as real. World is not stable + orderly, but rather characterized by conflict. 1840s conflict sociologists point to economic inequality. Operates (cid:271)est (cid:449)he(cid:374) it"s i(cid:374)(cid:448)isi(cid:271)le; if (cid:455)ou re(cid:272)og(cid:374)ize for (cid:449)hat it is, (cid:455)ou see through the veneer. Hegemony (gramsci 1920s): the everyday practice of ideology false conscious(cid:374)ess: i(cid:374)(cid:272)orre(cid:272)tl(cid:455) attri(cid:271)uti(cid:374)g a so(cid:272)ial pro(cid:271)le(cid:373) to a(cid:374) i(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual"s patholog(cid:455) (cid:449)ro(cid:374)g (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause so(cid:272)ial pro(cid:271)le(cid:373)s are rooted i(cid:374) the so(cid:272)ial order; (cid:374)ot (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause of so(cid:373)eo(cid:374)e"s (cid:271)ad (cid:272)hoi(cid:272)e the a(cid:374)ti-sociological imagination. Symbolic interactionism reality is a social (cid:272)o(cid:374)stru(cid:272)t; it"s a (cid:374)egotiated a(cid:272)(cid:272)o(cid:373)plish(cid:373)e(cid:374)t, a pro(cid:272)ess, (cid:374)ot fi(cid:454)ed.