SY101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Critical Race Theory, Symbolic Interactionism, Queer Theory
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Mills the sociological imagination: critically thinking about social problems exist, how they come together, how they operate at a particular moment, unpack the everyday, unsettle everyday assumptions. The social construction of critical citizenship, agency and democracy. Former pm stephen harper said, we are not committing sociology : tina fontaine, 15-year-old aboriginal murdered. Feminist theory (macro and micro analysis, patriarchy, gender, inequality, different theories) Critical race theory (race, racism, social construction, macro and micro analysis) Postmodernism (macro and micro analysis, looking at how meanings get constituted) Conversation with capitalism and socialism ideal types what are the characteristics: owning something that makes you money makes you a capitalism. Private sector: socialism is a contrast to capitalism. Karl marx: social order, inequality, economics was the most important element to look at, bourgeoisie and working class, class struggle, false consciousness, alienation, macro structural theory.
