SOC100H5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Status Quo, Sex Segregation, Consumerism
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Wouldn"t ask what the current birth rate is in canada, but can ask whether it"s declining or increasing. Sociological perspective know this, the strange in the familiar. Sociological imagination know this, not just the definition, we should know what it means to connect individual experiences to broader social structures and forces. Postmodernism: knowledge, power, rejection of modernity (no objective world, no. What makes truth right or wrong is how much power there is behind it. Complicated, subjective, personal interpretation we talk about discourse (example given was that of health, totalitarian discourse). We say we"re real, but in postmodernism, they"re both real. A modernist would say it"s not true, but a postmodernist would say they"re both real. Extreme is complete subjectivityex see a pencil case and say it"s a dog. Have to know all of them and everything about them, latent/manifest functions.
