SWP 335 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: False Consciousness, Intersectionality, Marketization
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* hiv, gender, race, sexual orientation and stigma and intersectionality. 3 levels of ideology expression: practical - behaviours & practices which arise from ideological belief (social workers dress/ behave professionally, theoretical - ideas, rationalizations or conceptualizations which explain these behaviours/ practices (professionals differentiate from volunteers) !1: leads to preserving of inequitable power relations could perhaps be contradictory as ideas. * when people manage to ply with, contest, and negotiate around a discourse and in the process produce new meaning and new identities, beyond the categories that are viewed as. * the word crazy has impacts on people. Subjectives: our sense of who we are is constituted or made up through whatever discourses in which we are positioned at any one point in time - both through our own and others acts of speaking/ writing. Language, discourse, power: language is not neutral, it is an attempt to make (or impose) meaning in a situation.
