SOCIOL 1A06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Cultural Capital, Consumerism, Economic Capital
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Concept that relects broad range of projects and theories. Knowledge and truth is luid and shaped and reshaped through discourse (i. e. , medical, poliical, academic discourse) Globalizaion brought upon emergence of mulinaional corporaions that span/cut across geographical boundaries - employ thousands of employees o o. Brought about major poliical social movements like for sexual minoriies, for aboriginals, for people of colour --> challenging of exising order of things for. Theorists suggest that there is no singular theory or truth that helps explains all of society o o. They say that truth or knowledge and the way that these are communicated/spread is through discourse. Example of discourse: academic discourse - if you feel like the past 60 seconds, prof is speaking another language. Have to look at power - can shape and reshape discourse. We consume discourse and ends up efecing how we see ourselves and how we live our lives.