CHYS 1F90 Lecture Notes - Meritocracy

• School: Brock University
• Department: Child and Youth Studies
• Course: CHYS 1F90
• Professor: Rebecca Raby

Document Summary

Quote, comparison, evaluation shifting by seminar and by week (sheet on sakai) One response and the quiz before the reading week! How do some people benefit more than others over certain understandings of childhood, youth and adulthood: modernism, critical theory, ideology, social constructionism, discourse, roll again! New sets of lenses: prioritizing context, critical lens, social policy/action. How can policy better reflect scientific knowledge about young people: critical theory. Links to modernism (believe we can access truth about world: about inequality, grounded in materialism (how things are produced): base (economy) and superstructure. Set of beliefs that support social system that someone has. Divine right of kings (born into nobility or not (peasant or prince)) Meritocracy and individualism (all rewarded according to merit) 3: based on the premise that our interactions in the material world are always linked through, how can these inequalities be addressed, social constructionist / postmodern positions. Power is linked to the authority to create and define knowledge.