SA 321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Wicket-Keeper, Microsoft Onenote, Social Inequality

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SA 321
• Professor: Deborah Dergousoff

Document Summary

Key concepts: discourse, hegemony, agency, governmentality, political economy, subaltern subjects. Compotation: depends on location, often the very changes a movement is involved in making may further the hegemonic power, frame to prevent conventional problems and unintentional effects. Questions underlying social movement politics and activism: use for midterm. Discourse and framing: framing (the politics of planning) + movement strategy/policy making = outcome, framing. Policy: decides what actions will be taken: sets permeameters for what is to be done, socialization is a form of discipline, how we think and feel and the intensity of them reflects in our actions. What are the options for economic ordering of society: post-capitalism is now emerging, we want something new, not to revert to feudal, communism, of capitalism. Paradigms for understanding social movements and activism: historical materialism (critique of capitalist modernity) Is history something that happens or can people take control of their own fate: determine by social norms and expectations.