POLS 2150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Gender Role, Classical Antiquity, Work Ethic
8 Feb 2015
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Films are considered required readings and are therefore very important. Power is not a thing, but a relation. it is not held, but is exercised. The exercise of power is shaped by relations of authority. Knowledge and power are in close relationship; power produces knowledge. We can never be free from power bc social relations are reliant on power. We must understand how power is exercised. Fashioned by human reason, progressing: gender: what it is to be masculine, what it is to be feminine. Is integral to politics, relations of authority. Liberal theorists: thomas hobbes, john locke, j. s. mill: human reason, industriousness leads to progress, always moving forward. Idealist: friedrich hegel: evolution of human consciousness, the march of god in the world. Materialist perspective: karl marx: relations of authority arise from relations of production. Patriarchy, the system: patriarchy is a system that is larger than ourselves.
