SOC 475 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Critical Inquiry, Anti-Globalization Movement, Post-Structuralism
30 Nov 2016
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Events of may 1968- revolts by students, women, workers, labourers, professtional and cultural workers. Foucault believed in collective conscious, marx believed in power struggles. Foucault use to be a marxist, and believe in socialism, but he changed. These struggles [e. g. feminism, anti-racism, lgbt, disability anti-globalization] are not directed against an institution or individual or state, class or elite but against a technique a form of power. foucault 1982, 780-781. Traversal-- many sites e. g. politics, law, culture, economy. Against how power operates as knowledge. (the truth about gender, sexuality, race, worker etc) Structuralism: seeks to uncover deep underlying structures that organize human actions; In contrast humanism sees individual agent as primary force in making of society. Poststructuralism: human actions are not spontaneous but shaped by linguistic or discursive structures: Foucault argues language does not define society, it constructs it. Seidman 177: genealogy seeks to disrupt social conventions and norms.
