GS201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Post-Structuralism, Dynamite Entertainment, Critical Race Theory
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What"s wrong with the world is our response to what"s wrong with the world (i. e. slavery, refugees, poverty, etc. We sit by and accept the world as it is, instead of trying to make a change (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Crime as moral categorization of behaviour: bad individuals do bad things; they should be stopped. Murder of aboriginal women as an expression of social, economic, and political relations: racism, patriarchy, colonialism, inequality. It is theory that gives us this vocabulary and explanations. Competing visions of the dynamic forces at work within society. Links to political movements that have shaped history. Unit 2: building on foundations, charting new territory. The notion that there is a thing called society is even less ancient. Several levels of addressing this question: through historical inquiry of human development, through scientific inquiry of the present. Society = human groups: through theoretical/philosophical inquiry, through a history of knowledge.
