KINE 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Michel Foucault, Consumerism, Food Security

• School: York University
• Department: Kinesiology & Health Science
• Course: KINE 1000
• Professor: Michael Riddell Heather Edgell

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Social construction: paradigm of our course is sometimes just called constructivism or. Cultural influences to shape our perception of what is a healthy/desirable body. Reading toward a new vision patricia hill collins. Pat collins: patricia hill collins is a social theorist that examined intersecting power relations of race, gender, social class, sexuality and/or nation. Hegemony: accepting to our own oppression bc we are afraid of those with power. Additive analyses of oppression: dichotomous thinking: either this or that, ranking of the dichotomous thinking: one group is always dominant/ the other always subordinate: The institutional (schools, businesses, hospitals, workplace, and government agencies: 2. Antonio gramsci: wrote about power as ideological ideas that make people (specially those without power) believe that their interest are the same than those with power (hegemony) Michel foucault: explained that power is never total. Sociological imagination: our recognition of the interdependent relationship between who we are as individuals and the social forces that shape our lives.