PERLS104- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 128 pages long!)

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Physical Education, Recreation and Leisure Studies
• Course: PERLS104
• Professor: Jay Scherer

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A quality of the mind that encourages individuals to connect personal troubles with public issues of social structure and historical social relations. Historical sensitivity in a historical context. Comparative sensitivity see your world in the context of similar others. Critical sensitivity willingness to see the world critically. Over 1000 indigenous women/girls murdered or missing. Harper said this was crime rather than sociological phenomenon. Social structure every society has sets of enduring* structures that are woven together do(cid:374)(cid:859)t (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ge easily, but do change over time slowly. A system of interdependent ideas that explain and justify political, economic, moral, and social conditions and interests, which make them look natural/correct. I(cid:374)(cid:272)redi(cid:271)l(cid:455) po(cid:449)erful (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause it di(cid:272)tates (cid:449)hat is (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)o(cid:374) se(cid:374)se a(cid:374)d (cid:449)hat is (cid:862)(cid:272)orre(cid:272)t(cid:863) Affects how we see and what we can see. Social theory: a set of propositions about the nature of the social world a(cid:374)d people(cid:859)s roles or a(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e engagement in that world.