SOC 3306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Washington Consensus, Rwandan Patriotic Front, Egalitarianism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3306
• Professor: Adolphine Y.Aggor- Boateng

Document Summary

When people are oppressed, violence is the end-game people respond to environmental factors, that limit or embrace how they change things. Eastern women are supposed to lack collective consciousness. What the elite feel that the country should do, affects women. *rwanda: women"s agency activism is much more advanced that the czech. Metanarratives: a concept used by comp, to make an account of cultural and socialized events it is totalizing and presents comprehensive ideas to people, becomes a framework for how people can change. Hegemonic, huge comprehensive and able to influence others. *metanarratives are repeated in media, books it is all you hear, they will limit or enhance consciousness. When consciousness is limited, it restrains activism, there is no alternative. Impact of communism, believed in the state who redistributes resources, ignore class differences, think about the states and masses. *lack of adequate structures to support a collective action. *no unions, intra company issue collaboration between management and workers.