SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Post-Structuralism, Antonio Gramsci, Marxist Feminism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Sam Alvaro

Document Summary

Should(cid:374)"t (cid:271)e thought of as (cid:272)o(cid:373)pletely separate fro(cid:373) (cid:272)lassi(cid:272)al theory: draw on each others work in their formulations, recurring theme of power runs through many modern theories. Antonio gramsci: hegemony is a process that is constantly negotiated and renegotiated and must be won, active consent, e. g. Radical feminism: main explanatory concept is the patriarchy, man has been in power. Bell hooks: black feminist thought, rarely recognized black women as separate from black men, criticized feminist theorizing that automatically households as places of patriarchal oppression for women, hook argues against universal assumption about women experiences. Post-structuralism: concerned with how knowledge is socially produced, power created within social relationships, multidimensional, found everywhere and always at. Foucault (power/knowledge and discourse) work: knowledge can never be separated from relations of power, discourses guide how we think, act and speak: tell us how the world is and how it ought to be. Surveillance of observing, recording and training and others abnormal.