NSE 112 Lecture 2: NSE 112
NSE 112
WEEK 2: Foundational Concepts: Phenomenology, critical social theory, social justice
1. How do we describe critical social theory?
- Framework for critiquing constrains on human freedom.
- Critiques of poser relations, inequality and domination.
- Uncovering of oppressive situations
- Exposes underlying social relationships and emancipation
- Extends beyond description of the work, the goal is to incite social changes
- Challenge status quo and taken for granted assumptions.
o Some important concepts:
• Social Norms:
− expected behaviours, cues and attitudes within social groups.
− We usually adhere to many of these kinds of norms
E.g.) giving sit for older people, say please when asking for
something and say thank you when someone does something for
you.
− We may reject some, resulting in: failure to be included in group activities.
Being shunned or isolated. Being marginalized. Being punished or
constrained.
− Social norms also promote a form of social control. They can have created
social expectations that enforced both formally and informally. What expect
in terms of “gender” can be subtling and overtly enforced- think about
occasions where the expectations of mothers and daughters differ from
fathers and sons.
• Social Discourse:
− How we develop ideas about what is considered to be “normal” or “right” or
“wrong”
− Through written and spoken language
− through media, conversations, writings, literature. Etc.
− we create “discourses” about certain things in society
− at different times and in different places, we see different dominant
discourses.
▪ Social discourse and health: when one discourse gains prominence at
any moment over the other discourses by a produce of social, political,
historical and others structural influences operating on those discourses
▪ Exp: scientific (medical) discourse in health care is afforded pre-
eminence
▪ Exp: nursing process and emphasis on physical assessment (bio-
medical model)
▪ Knowledge is manufactured by various groups of experts within
society.
• Social Construction;
− Concepts exit within particular contexts
− Social phenomena are “constructed”
− Consider the following contexts which are understood through our social
selves and within culture and institutions
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Document Summary
Framework for critiquing constrains on human freedom. Critiques of poser relations, inequality and domination. Extends beyond description of the work, the goal is to incite social changes. Challenge status quo and taken for granted assumptions: some important concepts, social norms: Expected behaviours, cues and attitudes within social groups. We usually adhere to many of these kinds of norms. E. g. ) giving sit for older people, say please when asking for something and say thank you when someone does something for you. We may reject some, resulting in: failure to be included in group activities. Social norms also promote a form of social control. They can have created social expectations that enforced both formally and informally. What expect in terms of gender can be subtling and overtly enforced- think about occasions where the expectations of mothers and daughters differ from fathers and sons: social discourse: How we develop ideas about what is considered to be normal or right or.
