SOC323H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Bell Hooks, Protestant Work Ethic, Atavism
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What is history: history a problematic discourse, about the past, written by present workers: Histories of the 70s very different from history written now, was written from. Marxist perspective: their work because it"s a discourse, it could be used in multiple ways, what. Marxist written in 70s about particular idea can be used in future histories written by future historians, becomes part of repertoire of what history is. But, correspond to power bases at particular moment, was about being like a science, not always sociology about trying to be like a science. Distributes histories along dominant/marginal spectrum, history shifts and certain things become dominant, discipline and ideas within that discipline shift. I. e. marxist histories of the 70s reacting to previous histories. In lu"s article talking about europeans and how they understand themselves. Idea of power coming from knowledge, writing things down, able to distance themselves: lu talks about writing hierarchy to classify and create typology.
