CHYS 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cultural Studies, Social Inequality, Cultural Hegemony

• School: Brock University
• Department: Child and Youth Studies
• Course: CHYS 1F90
• Professor: Shauna Pomerantz

Document Summary

Context is everything: thinking socio-culturally about children and youth. Key concepts: socio-cultural lens; society; culture; context; social justice; power; hegemony. Shau(cid:374)a(cid:859)s resear(cid:272)h: sociology of education, youth culture, girlhood and boyhood, first year experience. She enjoys: music, music trivia, netflix shows, exercising at the ymca, hanging out with friends and family. Developmental: (cid:449)hat da(cid:449)(cid:374) did : inside out, biological, cognition, emotion, ages/stages, models, universal/ generalizable. Socio-cultural: outside in, social/cultural influences, contextual, specific, localized, no models, not universal, generalizable. There may be a critique of the developmental lens, albeit it they are both very powerful. Thinking politically: challenging truths, questioning common sense, interrogating your/others belief, learning how to analyze/critique (rather than just describe) developmental model is one of the most powerful and commonly used lens in the field of children and youth. What is the socio-cultural lens: critical, political thinking about truth, power, knowledge, focus on how privilege/oppression are maintained, focus on what is society and culture.