SOC433H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: False Consciousness, Posthumanism, Consciousness Raising
Document Summary
Power is one of the most elemental form. Ability, agency, consistency to create an influence on another group ie. race/class or oneself. It is often constructed based on contexts, conflict, structure or legitimate organizations often acquire through transference of cultural capital. Persuasive entity: idea of persuasion as power, entity, posthumanism, not human centric. Power is used to get other people do do things against their will. Media-coercive/influence, consciousness raising influence, interpreting framing power, colonizing power on our minds. Typically executed in terms of class, status and party. Ties the analysis of power into state. Monopoly over the state, using violent sources over the society: military. Conscious and deliberative: turn on and off like a switch. When we do things that is in an anticipatory way, child does what is accepted by the parents. It is structural the haves and have nots. Why it is that we look at. False consciousness: something wrong about the way they see the world.
