SOCI 1002H Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Class Consciousness, Corporate Branding, Shift Work
31 Jan 2017
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Our personal power (proximal) is relative to social conditions and institutional forces. Review of chapter 1 & 3 (distil: student vs teacher, indg. Statues gives identity and power: desirability, influence stigma, isolation. Change is quantitative then qualitative: airport protests against muslim travel ban in the us, women"s march. Eugenics as legal and medical practice that protected white middle class. Genetic inferiority as cause of social problems: lombroso"s atavistic man, herbert spencer: social darwinism. Social problems (crime, poverty, addiction) result of failed adaption to social environment. From inferiority to dangerousness: colonial pratices of enslavement of black peoples and genocides of aboriginals. Racial profiling of bodies and spaces of indg. Culture: means of survival in the physical world: symbols, values: Social relations of production: cultural sphere: tattooing as a self expression, masculinity norms and performance. Economic sphere: women in paid workforce, public-life, men as targets of diet and fitness industry.
